Results of Physical and Chemical Analyses
The average values of the experimental results of
the FPP and FDPPP were given at Table 2. The
average initial moisture content of FPP was
found as 92.34 % (wet basis, wb) and drying
process removed 95.75% of water leading to a
final moisture content of 3.93% (wb). This result
is similar to the value of moisture content for
freeze dried mango as 4% (wb) (32), however,
lower than that of strawberry slices (9% wb),
pineapple (7%) and guava (5% wb) which were
also freeze dried in the studies by and Marques
et. al. (32) and Kirmaci et. al. (33) respectively.
The moisture content of FDPPP was found to be
higher than freeze dried guava concentrate