3.1. Sensory evaluation of mixed fruit leather samples The result of the sensory evaluation of the mixed fruit leather prepared using three different fruits (banana,pineapple and apple) are shown in Table 3. The result showed that the averagescore for appearance of sample314(60%banana:20%pineapple:20% apple)as7.35 while sample443(20%banana:40%pineapple: 40% apple)and sample819(40%banana:40%pineapple:20% apple)recorded7.00.From the statistical analysis conducted, though there was slight variation in the appearance of the samples, there was no significant differences(p40.05)among meaning that the appearance of all the samples were liked moderately by the panelists. The average texture score of the mixed fruitleathersampleswere7.15forsample443(20% banana:40%pineapple:40%apple)andsample819(40% banana:40%pineapple:20%apple)while there was slight difference in sample 314 (60%banana:20%pineapple:20% apple) which recorded 7.10,though there was no significant difference at(p40.05) among the samples in their textures. It is worth noting that the texture of fruit leather scan bee valuated in severs always. The human mou this more complex ate valuating the texture as opposed to a penetrometer which mightme a sure just one aspect of texture (HuangandHsieh,2005; Pomeranz and Meloan, 2000).