Drying of perish-able fresh-cut fruits and vegetables improves final products stability, reduces materials volume and storage cost, prolongsstorage time, reduces microbiological activity, and inactivatesenzymes (Mayor and Sereno, 2004; Demirhan and Ozbek,2009). Hot air drying process is one of the most commonly usedmethods in food industry to produce dried fruit. The maindrawbacks of hot air drying method are undesirable physical,structural, chemical, organoleptic, and nutritional changesoccurred during drying, which deteriorate finished productsquality and reduce consumer acceptance (