UNAIR NEWS – The awareness on the importance of health increases with the improvement of education and the community income. This affects the mindset of people and they make efforts to keep their bodies healthy such as doing exercise until consuming herbal products rather than chemical supplements with side effects.

Because of this condition, five students of from Faculty of Public Health Universitas Airlangga, Sinta Nabilah Mulyawati (2016), Azizi Pridasari (2016), Rizki Nur Azizah (2016), Jihan Salsabila (2016), and Himaya (2015) have ideas to make herbal supplements through Entrepreneurship Student Creativity Program (PKMK) entitled “KAYA (The Papaya Leaf Capsule) as an Effort to Promote Modern Herbal Supplements”.

Sinta as the team leader said that papaya leaves have various substances  beneficial to maintain health. Papain enzymes in papaya leaves according to Sinta can help protein digestion.

“The content of vitamins A, C and E can help regenerating white blood cells and platelets so good for the immune system,” he explained.

In addition, other content in the papaya leaf, carpain compounds, can inhibit the growth of microorganisms. For Sinta, it was a breakthrough created by the team.

“It is a way to take a leaf-based herbal supplements. If people generally consume by boiling the leaves, the papaya leaf in this product packed in capsule form without reducing the properties contained in it so it is easier to consume, “said Sinta.

Sinta also confirmed that this “RICH” supplement is one of the preventive measures to prevent people from certain diseases. The number of diseases that begin to attack the community from all walks of life and do not look at the age to make the community must be clever to keep health.

“Along with the development of technology, many traditional herbal supplements are packaged in instant form like powder that just needs to be brewed or in the form of a capsule like KAYA product,” she added.

For packaging, Sinta said that there were thirty capsules that can be consumed twice a day on each bottle of packaging. Papaya leaf supplements can also be obtained at a price of Rp 30,000.

“With an affordable price, various health benefits have been obtained, so that the body will remain healthy. This product can be ordered via LINE with id @ azizipridas or Instagram with id @ kaya_product, “she concluded.

Editor: Nuri Hermawan