Rehydration capacity for the solar-assisted spouted bed dried pea was higher than the one for open sun dried (Table 2). Jadhav et al. (2010) observed that, open sun dried peas had the lowest rehydration ratio when compared to other drying methods, that were solar cabinet, fluidized bed and freeze drying. It was related to the highest shrinkage rate of the open sun dried peas. Since the drying temperature and so drying rate was higher for solar-assisted spouted bed as compared with open sun drying, less shrinkage was observed for solar-assisted spouted dried pea which resulted in a higher degree of rehydration.