• Muhammad Hanif

• Mansoor K. Khattak,

• Masood U.Rehman,

• Muhammad Ramzan,

• Muhammad Amin,

• Muhammad Aamir,

• Shaiza S. Sher,

• Hafizullah,

• Saqib Khan,

• Muhammad Saeed,

• Abdullah Khan,

• Muhammad Saqlain

Abstract

Experiments were conducted in 2013-14 to study the effect of drying temperature and natural preservatives for reducing aflatoxins in dried persimmons. Persimmons were dried using a flat plate solar collector connected to a drying chamber at a temperature range of 40 to 60o C and less than 10% relative humidity. Persimmons dried at 40o C took 22, at 50o C 19 and at 60o C 17 hours to minimize moisture from 76% to less than 9% under an average drying rates of 0.11, 0.12 and 0.13 gH2O.gd.m -1 respectively. After drying the samples were studied for aflatoxins. Analysis of variance was done using two factorial completely randomized design. The analysis of variance (ANOVA) showed that both the factors significantly (α

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