3rd week- Fruit Leather

Before task:

Objective:

This week, chef gave us our last experiment before we start our own experiment. This week he asked us to do fruit leather by using dragon fruit.

During Task:

The ingredients are:

Dragon fruit-2 1/2 cup

sugar- 25g

Method:

Peel the dragon fruit

Once done peeling, cut the dragon fruit into small pieces 

This is the ingredient before we blend it.

Then add the dragon fruit into the blender. Blend it till smooth.

After blend, add sugar into it and stir the sugar till dissolve.

The image of blended dragon fruit and dissolve sugar.

Line in jelly roll pan with parchment paper and spread the fruit evenly in the pan. 

Dry in the oven at 100'C between 2 1/2 hours or dry until completely dry and no longer sticky.

This is the result after drying it for 21/2 hours.

After Task:

                                                   Chart 12.2.3: FRUIT LEATHERS

TREATMENT	COLOR		FLAVOR	TENDERNESS	TEXTURE
	BEFORE	AFTER
Dragon Fruit	White	Dark Brown	Bitter	Flaky	Crunchy

Conclusion:

What we can conclude is that sugar is a preservatives substance that can preserve food or fruits.