It was observed, in
general, that weight reduction, sugar gain and water loss
were increased with increase in contact time up to first 1 h of osmosis in nearly all treatments and thereafter the values
increased with decreasing rate and approached to equilibrium with length of contact. Similar results were reported
by Panda et al. (2005) for osmo-dried grapes and Jain et al. (2004) for osmo connective drying of papaya.