Physical and Chemical Properties of Chicken Nugget Combined with Meat of Golden Snail

Abstract

Golden snail is the major pest in thewet paddy land in the East Halmahera region. The use of chemical pesticides has failed to control the pest and hascaused an increase in environmental pollution. In order to reduce the detrimental effect of the golden snail attack on paddy growth and production, the animal was controlled by using a collection method and can potentially be used as the source of protein in the human diet due to its high nutrition content. This study aimed at examining whether nugget made from a combination of chicken meat and golden snail meat contained high protein and how the performance and taste of the meat combination was. A laboratory experiment was established in a randomized completely design with five treatments: P0(100% chicken meat); P1 75% chicken meat + 25 % golden snail meat); P2 50% chicken meat + 50% golden snail meat); P3 25% chicken meat + 75% golden snail meat); and P4(100% golden snail meat). The treatments were set up in three replications. The variables observed were protein and fat content from each treatment as well as color, taste, texture and smell of nugget made from each treatment. An analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used for determining statistical differences among the treatments. The results showed that nugget with a 100% chicken meat andwith the addition of up to 50% of golden snail meat into chicken meat treatments had a good performance in color, texture and flavor. Meanwhile, a higher content of protein was found in a nugget from the treatment with a 100% chicken meat (15.19% protein); and with the addition of 25% (15.40% protein) and 75% of golden nail meat (15.00% protein) than other treatments, respectively. In addition, the highest content of fat was found in nugget with the addition of 50% of golden snail meat treatment (1.79% fat). It is recommended to add up to 25% of golden snail meat into the chicken as it still meets the Indonesian National Standard for nugget.