Refractance window drying of dragon fruit: drying kinetics, mass transfer parameters and structural analysis.

Darshan G, Prashant Anil Pawase, Chetna Goswami, Piyush Kashyap

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Non-Destructive Sensing and Intelligent Quality Prediction During Fruit Drying: From Quality Formation to Decision Support.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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Darshan GDepartment of Food Technology and Nutrition, School of Agriculture, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab 144411 India.

Prashant Anil PawaseSchool of Food Technology, MIT Art Design and Technology University, Loni Kalbhor, Maharastra India.

Chetna GoswamiDepartment of Food Technology and Nutrition, School of Agriculture, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab 144411 India.

Piyush KashyapDepartment of Food Technology and Nutrition, School of Agriculture, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab 144411 India.ORCID 0000-0003-1650-082X

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Refractance Window (RW) drying is a modern technique for producing dried powders, slices, or leathers from fruits and vegetables. This study evaluated the effects of temperature (60, 70, and 80 °C) and citric acid (CA) pretreatment (0.5, 1, and 1.5%) on the drying behavior, mass transfer, quality, and structural properties of RW-dried dragon fruit slices. Drying time at 80 °C was reduced by 36-63% with CA pretreatment. The Page model best described the drying kinetics, with high R Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10068-025-01909-9.

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Citric acidDragon fruitDrying kineticsMass transferRefractance window drying

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PMID40655285

DOI10.1007/s10068-025-01909-9

PMCPMC12240898

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