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Food Name
Prepare
Dry standard Time/hour (approx.)
Apple
To remove cores,
slices, or loops
Pliable
5-6
Artichoke
Cut into 3mm strips
Brittle
5-13
Almond
Cut in half or slice,
denucleate
Pliable
12-38
Banana
Peel and cut into
3-4mm slices
Brittle
8-38
Cherry
Remove cores or not,
or wait
Tenacious
8-34 Half dry
before denuclearization
Blueberry
Split or whole
Pliable
6-26
Jujube
Enucleated slice
(or whole)
Tenacious
6-72
Fig
Slice
Tenacious
6-26
Grape
Whole
Pliable
8-72
Nectarine
Cut half with skin and
air dry, half dry
and remove core
Pliable
8-26
Orange peel
Elongated strip
Brittle
8-16
A. Fruit pretreatment
1. Fill 2 glasses of water to 1/4 cup of fruit juice and immerse
the required dried food for about 2 minutes. (Note: Juice is
used with food, such as apple juice for dried apples.
2. Food Handling List
Chapter V
Treatment Methods before Food Drying
(Note: The following methods are for reference only)
Pear
Peeled slice
Pliable
8-30
Peach
Semidry enucleated,
half or 1/4
Pliable
10-34
