2006 Annual Report 4d.Progress report. This report serves to document research performed under a Specific Cooperative Research Agreement between ARS and a university partner. Additional details of research can be found in the report for the parent project 5325-41000-060-00D, "New Technologies to Process Value-Added, Healthy Foods from Fruits and Vegetables". A variety of new hurdle processing methods have been developed through this project. Infrared dehydration steps have been combined with conventional hot air drying and freeze-drying to produce unique, high quality final fruit and vegetable products at significantly lower energy and production costs. This research supports NP 306, Component 2, "New Processes, New Uses, and Value-Added Foods".