There is a bidder in Potato Kleci Cancer

Kleci potatoes, black-skinned potatoes of your thumb are mostly found in these traditional markets, proved to have anticancer content. These small tubers are usually steamed for consumption or sometimes mixed in the vegetables. This black potato flavor as well as other potatoes.

Latin name Coleus tuberosus, potatoes kleci contain antioxidant compounds and antiproliferasi triterpenic acid groups.

content of the compounds in the skin is higher (about 4 times) compared with the tuber flesh.

"These compounds and extracts of potato tubers black after antioxidant activity was tested using FTC and TBA methods were positive showed high activity,"

To determine the mechanism antiproliferasinya, by microscopic observation after providing coloring (staining) using acridine orange / ethidium bromide. This gives evidence that cancer cells treated potato tuber extracts undergoing apoptosis, which occurs the damage morphology, DNA fragmentation, and death of cancer cells.

These findings have been published in three journals of international level, namely the International Food Research Journal, African Journal of Food Science, and Journal of Medicinal Plants Research.