The Biunik of Isotonic Safety with the Addition of Arabic Gum

Abstract

Background: Endurance sports greatly affect fluid requirements. The exercise that is too heavy will causea lot of body fluids to come out. Providing sports drinks with carbohydrate and electrolyte content has morebenefits for athletes. One of them is an isotonic drink formula with the addition of gum Arabic. The foodsafety factor in isotonic drink formulas is very important to prevent side effects due to the contamination offood or beverages that can endanger health.Objectives to determine the food safety of the isotonic drink formula with the addition of gum Arabic.Method: This study is the pre-experimental. Food safety, which includes microbial and metal contaminants,was analyzed at the Makassar Health Laboratory Center. The results showed that the isotonic beverageformula with the addition of gum Arabic was safe from metal contamination.Results of the microbial contamination test shows that Biunik (F1) is an isotonic drink formula with theaddition of safe Arabic gum, while other formulas still exceed the quality requirements of isotonic drinks inIndonesia based on ISN 01-4452-1998.