All the properties like moisture, oil uptake, density, expansion and specific volume were found to be greatly affected by frying conditions. A modified first order exponential model accurately fitted the moisture content data for different frying times. Moisture diffusivity was determined at different temperatures, which on plotting against 1=T gave activation energy. The optimum pro- perties obtained experimentally were moisture (1.2%), expansion (46.4%), oil absorption (47.3%), frying time (20 s) and frying temperature (185 ± 1 °C). Apparent
density was found to decrease as frying conditions in- creased.