Drying models
The drying data was fitted to the Exponential and Page Models to evaluate their suitability to describe the drying process.
The two models were chosen because they are widely used for describing drying of most biological materials.
Comprehensive modeling of banana drying process under infrared heating will be a subject of another manuscript. Model curves were fitted to the experimental data, and the performance of the model was determined by the determination coefficient (R2). A higher R2 indicates a better fit for the model.