with 20% and 40% weight reductions and no dipping treatment
took 23 and 38 h to achieve the final moisture content
of 5 g moisture/100 g wet weight compared to 21.1 h for the
non-predehydrated (regular FD) sample. The results were opposite
from what has been observed with strawberry slices in
our other studies (Shih et al., 2008). This could be due to
shrinkage or crust formation during the predehydration of banana
samples, which was confirmed by the micrographs of the
dried banana from SEM.