17 FEBRUARY 2011 - EXPERIMENT 3 FRUIT LEATHER

This week experiment turn out to be a simple experiment but it got a long time period to fully done. Fruit leather is a dried fruit is fruit that has been dried to remove some of the fruit's moisture, either naturally or through use of a machine, such as a food dehydrator or oven. Sometimes called fruit rolls or taffies. They are light in weight, easy to prepare and a good way to use left-over canned fruit and slightly over-ripe fresh fruit.

This week task our group have been given to make fruit leather with peach...

Let's go to the ingredient and preparation of making the fruit leather :)

The ingredient:
1. A can of Peach or fresh peach
2. 25 g sugar

Every food difference kind of method...

Method:
1. Dry the peach don't leave any syrup.
2. Blend the peaches until smooth/puree.
3. Stir in the sugar after blend the peach.
4. Spread the puree on the baking tray using either aluminum foil or grease paper.
5. lastly bake the it on 2 hour and 30 minute ( and make sure the oven is not closed fully leave it open 2 quarter open )

this is some of the picture taken during the experiment :)

Treatment	Color	Flavor	Tenderness	Texture
Strawberries	Dark color	Sour	Chewy	Soft
Peach	Dark brown	Sweet	Chewy	Soft
Dragon Fruits	Dark brown	Bitter	Chewy	Very soft
Kiwi	Dark brown	Sour	Crunchy	Soft
Apple	Brown	Sweet	Chewy	Very soft