Following nonlinear regression ofeach model on the rice data set, the pooled standard error(SE) and Akaike information criterion were estimated (Table 2).The Akaike information criterion (AIC) is defined as: AIC =−2 × log lik + 2 × npar. Therefore, the AIC can be used to com-pare models in their suitability in describing datasets, takinginto account numbers of model parameters (npar). The Pagemodel (Eq. (9)) resulted in the lowest SE and AIC, and wastherefore the best suited to describe the drying kinetics ofinstant rice for the purpose of simulation and scale up of theprocess