Abstract :
Sweet soy sauce is one of the additional food ingredients used to enhance
food taste. Sweet soy sauce is widely used by traders in Soutern Square Surakarta to
add flavor to the food. Sweet soy sauce can be contamined by mold. Contamination
of mold can reduce the quality of sweet soy sauce. This study aims to determine the
presence of fungi Aspergillus sp. on sweet soy sauce used by food seller in the
Soutern Square Surakarta.
The design used in this study is descriptive. This study uses the Quota
Sampling technique, which is as much as 6 samples of sweet soy sauce used by food
seller in the Soutern Square Surakarta. The place of research was carried out at the
Parasitology Laboratory of the STIkes Nasional Surakarta in April 2019. This study
used the Quota Sampling technique, which consisted of 6 samples of sweet soy sauce
used by food seller in the Soutern Square Surakarta. Data of Aspergillus sp. obtained
from the results of the soy sauce identification were analyzed descriptively by
comparing the macroscopic and microscopic images using the atlas.
The results of fungal identification in sweet soy sauce obtained 67% of sweet
soy sauce samples, 4 of 6 samples of sweet soy sauce used by food seller in the
Soutern Square Surakarta, positively contaminated by Aspergilus sp. Other
contaminant fungi found are Mucor sp. and Pencillium sp. and positive yeast in all
samples of sweet soy sauce