Environmental Management and Utilizing Dragon Fruit Peel Waste as Natural Food Coloring

— In the current environmental management there are a lot of obstacles faced, one of which is the garbage that has accumulated and prolonged so that it requires efforts to overcome it. Dragon fruit skin waste is an alternative to be utilized as a natural food coloring agent. With food coloring and beverages will be more attractive to consumers. This study aims to obtain natural dyes from dragon fruit peel waste, through natural extraction, and comparison using soxhlet, using the ethanol vetroleum assistants, then conducted with food staining and organoleptic tests. This research uses extraction method. Dragon fruit is taken its skin then dried, the next process is drying and flouring. After the flouring, an anthocyanin stability test is obtained, then applied to food and organoleptic tests. The results showed that served in food and the color generated from the skin of dragon fruit for food coloring, the resulting color is very bright, so it is very interesting in terms of the texture of the food served.