BANANA POWDER: The Real Test of Baby Food

Banana is one of the most consumed fruits in tropical and subtropical regions of Southeast Asia, belongs to family Musaceae and class Liliopsida. Banana is one of the most important high sugar tropical fruit crops grown in many countries and is very susceptible to quality deterioration. Due to the higher sugar contents in bananas, it normally requires lower temperatures for drying and that prolonged drying times. It may also cause serious adverse changes in flavour, colour, texture and nutrients of the finished products. The osmotic dehydration is a process of water removal from a high moisture solid food by osmotic pressure created by a surrounding liquid medium.