Solar assisted drying of surimi

Solar-energy drying system appears increasingly to be attractive as commercial propositions. Surimi can be defined as a wet concentrate of muscle that is mechanically de boned; water washed and mixes with cryoprotectant for a good frozen shelf life. Facilities during surimi process and stirage such as electric power are lack in the developed countries. As a result surimi powder was introduced two decade ago. In this study surimi will be converted to powder using solar and oven dried methods. Solar drying system and oven will be used to dry surimi to less than 10%. Drying curves for surimi will be obtained in the lab