where aw, the water activity of the product, is assumed to be equal to hd at equilibrium conditions. In general, fresh apple isotherms show a slight dependence whit temperature that gradually disappears as water activity decreases, so at aw values below 0.15 the effect of temperature is negligible (Djendoubi Mrad et al., 2012). Moreover, when saccharides are added to the fruit as in fruit leathers preparation, isotherms are not affected by temperature at aw below 0.80 (Kaya and Kahyaoglu, 2005). This consideration allows the calculation of We by Eq. (2) for all drying temperatures, as the relative humidity of the drying air (hd), and so the product aw at equi- librium, were never higher than 0.080 in the experimental conditions of this work. Drying curves were modeled by apply- ing a diffusional model for isothermal drying (Crank, 1975), which accurately predicted the drying of apple leathers (Leiva Díaz et al., 2009) and tomato leathers (Fiorentini et al., 2008). The model solution of the unsteady-state, local mass balance for internal–external control to the mass transfer rate, inte- grated over a plane sheet, is as follows: