18 Volume 2/Edisi 1/2018 Nutri-Sains PERBEDAAN SISA MAKANAN PADA LAUK HEWANI BERDASARKAN PEMBERIAN GARNISH (The Differences of Food Waste in Animal Side Dishes Based on Garnish Giving) Mustakim 1 , Hapsari Sulistya Kusuma 2 , Yuliana Noor Setiawati Ulvie 3 1,2,3 Program Studi Diploma III Gizi, Fakultas Ilmu Keperawatan dan Kesehatan Universitas Muhammadiyah Semarang hapsa31@yahoo.com Abstract Food waste is one of the important indicators to find out the success of food service in a food organization in a hospital. The purpose of this study was to determine the differences in food waste on a treatment: serve with and without garnishes on diet serving in Rajawali room to patients 5A and 5B Dr. Kariadi Semarang hospital. This type of descriptive analytic study illustrates the differences in the weight of the food waste (staple food, animal and vegetable side dish) serve with and without garnishes. This study involved 36 respondents which were divided into 2 groups. The first group of 18 respondents received food served with garnishes, while the second group of 18 received with no garnishes. The garnishes given in the form of lettuce and tomatoes (rounded cut on animal side dishes). The food waste was weighed using a digital scale with an accuracy of 0.01 grams and the data was then analyzed using Mann-Whitney. The results showed the food waste in animal side dishes with garnishes was 9.9%. While the serving with no garnishes was 26.4%. It implies that the use of garnishes is able to reduce the food waste on animal side dishes by 16.5%. Based on the data analysis, it was obtained the p-value = 0.000, which indicating a significant difference on the average weight of the food waste which served with and without garnishes. Keyword: animal side dishes, food waste, garnishes Abstrak Sisa makanan merupakan salah satu indikator penting untuk mengetahui keberhasilan pelayanan makanan dalam sebuah penyelenggaraan makanan di rumah sakit. Tujuan penelitian untuk mengetahui perbedaan sisa makanan antara penyajian tanpa garnish dengan penyajian menggunakan garnish pada makanan diet biasa pasien rawat inap ruang rajawali 5A dan 5B RSUP Dr. Kariadi Semarang. Jenis penelitian yang digunakan deskriptif analitik yang menggambarkan perbedaan berat sisa makanan pokok, lauk hewani, dan lauk nabati antara penyajian menggunakan garnish dengan tanpa garnish. Penelitian menggunakan 36 responden dibagi 2 kelompok. Kelompok pertama sebanyak 18 responden mendapat penyajian makanan dengan garnish