Husna Haziqah Binti Mohd Rodzi, Nor Atikah Husna Binti Ahmad Nasir, Nur Syafiqah Binti Rahim, Norlin Binti Shuhaime and Ahmad Zuhairi Bin Abd Rahman
Keywords: banana, gel, antibacterial, natural, wound healing.
Abstract: Large quantities of fruit waste are generated from agricultural processes worldwide. This waste is often dumped into landfills or the ocean. However, since banana peels have a valuable health benefit such as antimicrobial properties, it can be one of great alternatives in therapeutic treatments. The purposed of developing Musa Epigel is to allow us maximized the benefit of banana peel as wound healing agent. The antibacterial effect of banana peels extract against several types of common skin infection bacteria were conducted by using disc diffusion method against two Gram positive bacteria (S. aureus and B. subtilis) and Gram negative bacteria (E. coli). Five different concentrations (0.1-1,000 mg/mL) of extract were used. Highest concentration of extract (1000mg/ml) shows the highest inhibitory effect against all the bacteria with E. coli (11mm), B. subtilis (10mm) and S. aureus (8mm). In addition 1,000 mg/mL of the banana peel extract were incorporated in gel and tested on mice to check its wound healing properties. Wound on mice was healed from 1.5 cm (day 1) to 0.3 cm within seven days with 80% recovery. In conclusion, the result implied that the peel extract of banana could be a potential of wound healing agent.