Rice is the main food for most people of Indonesia. Level of rice consumption in
Indonesia reached 139 kg/capita/year. This value is very high when compared to other
countries such as Japan 45 kg/capita/year, Malaysia 80 kg/capita/year and Thailand 90 kg/
capita/year. This data shows that Indonesia relies heavily on one of the foodstuffs. To meet the
needs of the rice Indonesia to import as much as 24 929 tons of rice (Anon, 2004a; Santosa,
2016).
Toreduce dependence of rice and imfort, so that food diversification program by using
local food, like cassava is one alternative that can be done. Diversification of staple food have
to do with the development and introduction of alternative materials substitute of rice that
resembles rice in both form and content of nutrients.
Cassava (Manihotesculenta) is a kind of tubers that contain high carbohydrates with low levels
of amylose and high amylopectin contents so it can be used as food source of carbohydrates
instead of rice (Rismayani, 2007).
Diversification of food made people more healty. In addition, diversification is able to
create new jobs with the growth of small-midlebusinesswhich process foodstuffs and
increasing of agricultural land planted non-rice crops. In an effort to support national food
security so diversification program of the utilization of local food as a source of carbohydrate
as one of cassava need to be developed. One of the products processed from cassava material
that was developed is "analog rice".
According to Yuwono, et al., (2013), rice analog is one form of diversification of staple
foods prepared from carbohydrate-based raw material with the addition of certain substances
to improve the quality of staple foods. Product diversification is expected to support national
food security program to reduce rice consumption level without making major changes in
peoples eating traditions.
Keywords: rice, diversification, food security, analog rice
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