Anyone with an idea of chemical solutions that can be used for pre-drying treatment of fruits to improve their drying rates and quality parameters?

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Dang Nguyen Thoai

Dear Obafemi,

I have just found some information for your interest. In pre-drying process, the Pre-treatments--Sulfuring can be a suitable solution. Sulfuring by dipping in bisulfite solutions

For more details, you can get from the following reference

Good luck,

Dang

Jim Still

A few words of advice, if you intend to market/sell in the US, then you should not use any chemicals at all, especially sulfurs, if at all possible. Just dry them as "natually" as possible, even if it takes longer...