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Food Supplement 2010 results of combination red juice with oil of chocolate that can cope with coronary heart disease, heart arteries and cholesterol.

KUPANG, KOMPAS.com — Made Budi, a lecturer and researcher at the University of Jayapura, Papua, paradise-, back to find supplements to overcome the pain of coronary heart disease, high blood pressure, cholesterol, and strengthens the arteries of the heart. These findings in the form of a combination of chocolates Papua and red juice.

Made Bob in attendance at the seminar on heart health in Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara, Tuesday (6/1/2011), say, chocolate or theobroma cacao Papua is potentially for pharmaceutical ingredients, especially basic ingredients food supplement. From the medical side, the Brown fat is very suitable for therapy of heart.

In the study for two years, Made Budi found the fatty acid composition, Brown nearly 85 percent of oil produced by fatty acid chains are primarily, with stearic acids C10-35 percent. In addition, cocoa also contain antioxidants inhibit the oxidation of phenol functional LDL (bad FAT).

Brown also contains polyphenols found in red wine and red fruit. The inventor of the red juice for health in 2005 is to say, the results of research involving human subjects, consume chocolate also resulted in the total cholesterol and LDL cholesterol levels are very low compared to eating beef fat or butter. Although both contain fat, cholesterol effect turned out to be very different.

"Fatty acid content of red fruit is dominated by oleic acid as much as 50 percent, while the oleic acid on the chocolate just 7 percent. The difference of two different types of plants this encourage me doing scientific studies and menformulasikannya to human health, "said Made.

From the results of this study, researchers performed a combination between sari innovation of red fruit (red fruit oil) and oil of chocolate (chocolate oil). This product was named Food Supplement.

The composition of the outcome of a combination of red juice and chocolate oil is composed of a chocolate fatty acids consist of Palmitic acid containing 24.8 per cent, 27.3 percent margariat acid, oleic acid, stearic acid of 7.3 per cent 37.8 per cent, and eicosadinoat acid 1.3 percent. While mineral composed of iron (Fe) 40,36 ppm, potassium (K) 74,34 ppm, magnesium (Mg) 65,79 ppm, and phosphorus (P) 203 ppm.