4. Conclusions
Both the frying temperature and the pre-drying have a significant effect over the finalcrispness and oil content of potato chips (P40.05). The lower the frying temperature, the higher the crispness of the finalpotato chips. Pre-drying increases the crispness dramatically and significantly reduces (P40.05) the oilabsorption of the blanched potato slices after frying. The higher the frying temperature the lower the oil uptake either in only blanched or in blanched–dried fried potato slices. The proposed modelproperly fitted the texturalchanges during frying.