The effect of intermittent drying on drying kinetics and quality change dynamics of organic carrot (daucus carota v. laguna)

The objective of this research was to investigate the effect of intermittent drying on drying kinetics and quality of organic carrots. Drying time can be reduced by 18.2 % to 25.5% after tempering for 1 and 3 hours.Tempering for 3 hours at 30% moisture levels had shown shorter drying time, minimal color changes at 8.43 and the highest retention of total carotenoids of up to 7 8%.The Page, Midili and Two term equations were found to be appropriate to describe the drying kinetics of organic carrot