Chapter V
Treatment Methods before Food Drying
(Note: The following methods are for reference only)
A. Fruit pretreatment
1. Fill 2 glasses of water to 1/4 cup of fruit juice and immerse
the required dried food for about 2 minutes. (Note: Juice is
used with food, such as apple juice for dried apples.
2. Food Handling List
Food Name
Apple
Artichoke
Almond
Banana
Cherry
Blueberry
Jujube
Fig
Grape
Nectarine
Orange peel
Peach
Pear
Prepare
To remove cores,
slices, or loops
Cut into 3mm strips
Cut in half or slice,
denucleate
Peel and cut into
3-4mm slices
Remove cores or not,
or wait
Split or whole
Enucleated slice
(or whole)
Slice
Whole
Cut half with skin and
air dry, half dry
and remove core
Elongated strip
Semidry enucleated,
half or 1/4
Peeled slice
Dry standard Time/hour (approx.)
Pliable
Brittle
Pliable
Brittle
Tenacious
Pliable
Tenacious
Tenacious
Pliable
Pliable
Brittle
Pliable
Pliable
5-6
5-13
12-38
8-38
8-34 Half dry
before denuclearization
6-26
6-72
6-26
8-72
8-26
8-16
10-34
8-30
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