Effect of Different Predrying Treatments on Physicochemical Quality and Drying Kinetics of Twin Layer Solar Tunnel Dried Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum L.) Slices

Table 2

Effect of predrying treatment on TSS, TA, Wa, and TSS/TA of twin-layer-solar-tunnel-dried tomato samples.

Treatments	TSS (°Brix)	TA (%)	Wa	TSS/TA
AA	8.9^a  ±  0.1	0.75^d  ±  0.02	0.384^a  ±  0.005	11.86^a ± 0.49
CC	8.93^a  ±  0.11	0.904^ab  ±  0.03	0.332^cd  ±  0.001	9.88^b ± 0.19
CA	9^a  ±  0.00	0.955^a  ±  0.03	0.336^c  ±  0.001	9.42^bc ± 0.29
CO	7.43^c  ±  0.23	0.87^cb  ±  0.05	0.344^b  ±  0.001	8.56^c ± 0.75
SC	8.2^b  ±  0.17	0.819^cd  ±  0.05	0.328^d  ±  0.001	10.02^b ± 0.44
Fresh	5.3	0.324	0.951	16.34
CV	1.8	3.2	0.72	4.21
Lsd	0.45	0.07	0.007	1.18

Means with the same letter are not significantly different () according to Tukey’s (significant difference) test.