ZITE, High Calcium Fish Bone Cookies by IPB Students Won Second Place in the Cipta Karya Inovasi Competition

Inspired by the campaign carried out by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) regarding zero food waste, four students of the Bogor Agricultural Institute (IPB) namely Raisa (Department of Community Nutrition), Lutvi Abdullah (Department of Chemistry), Ahmad Al Banjaran (Department of Computer Science), and Rita Syafitri (Department of Management) created Zwieback of Fish Bone Based on Barcode Novelty Technology (ZITE). ZITE is a cookie with a mixture of ingredients derived from fish bones. The form of fish bones mixed in flexible cookies, not always in the form of powder, but can also take the form of fish bone extract. According to him, ZITE has several benefits and uniqueness. The benefit of ZITE is that it can be a solution to reduce fish bone waste and prevent diseases due to calcium deficiency. One of the unique features of ZITE is its packaging. ZITE packaging is equipped with barcode technology that will display ZITE’s nutritional content, human nutritional needs per day, and info on production houses.

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