2.2. Dehydration of passion fruit peel Peel and extractants were weighed and taken in a 1 L Borosil
glass beaker. The beakers were kept in a thermostatically controlled
Passion fruit peels were passed through a fruit mill to crush the stainless steel water bath at the required temperature. The
material into pieces of 3–5 mm, washed in tap water and blanched temperature of the water bath during extraction were maintained
for 5 min in boiling water. Blanched material was loaded on at 70, 80, 90 and 98.7 C and heating was done in open conditions.
2stainless steel trays with a tray load of 9.375 kg m and dehy-
drated in a cross flow hot air drier at 60 1 C to a final moisture