Kajian pengeringan manisan pepaya (Carica papaya) menggunakan hot air rotary oven.

Abstract

Papaya is a fruit that is easily damaged and relatively has low shelf life. To increase the added value of papaya, this fruit is dried to become dry candied papaya. The objective of this research is to assess the performance of hot air rotary oven dryer on candied papaya drying process and determine the optimum temperature for drying process of candied papaya. Papaya fruit with varieties of Calina IPB-9 with the maturity level of 80 % is used as a raw material for making candied papaya. The treatments that conducted were blanching temperature and drying temperature. The blanching temperatures are 80 °C and 90 °C while the drying temperatures are 45, 60, and 75 °C. The results showed that blanching temperature have no effect on the candied papaya drying process while drying temperature could accelerate the drying rate. Candied papaya that treated by blanching temperature of 80 °C and drying temperature of 60 °C resulting in the best quality based acceptance of taste’s criteria.