The present work had for objective to study desorption isotherms of the pulp of banana in the mature and semigreen stadium (Musa acuminata) of the Silver variety, at temperatures of 20; 30 and 40 ºC for static gravimetrical method in the band water activity from 0.48 to 0.81. The experimental curves that were fitted for no-linear regression, for models of BET, GAB, Halsey and Oswin, choosen the best, by means of the value of the determination coefficient (R²) and relative average error (E). Models had presented minor relative error (E) and the biggest determination coefficient (R²) that respectively were of Oswin and GAB. The GAB was picked out to be triparametric, which lets a better adjustment of curves up to water activities to 0.9.
Musa acuminata; desorption isotherms; water activity
