2.4.5. Rehydration
Rehydration of strawberry sampleswas done in a thermally isolated
container filled with about 5 L of distilled water. The temperature of
water inside the container was set at 20 °C. Strawberry samples
(100 g) were put in two plastic tied up sieves and immersed for 12 h.
After rehydration samples were shaken twice to drain attached water
and weighed afterwards, using the Shimadzu BL320H (Shimadzu Co.,
Tokyo, Japan) electronic balance. In order to account for rehydration
performance, the rehydration coefficient was defined as the ratio between
the amounts of water absorbed after rehydration to the amounts
of water removed by dehydration