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The drying and rehydration process of conventionally and organically cultivated carrots was studied and the resulting data were fitted to the Peleg’s model. Carrots were fluid-bed and halogen dried and after that soaked in water at room temperature. The Peleg’s model gave a good prediction of water removal and water uptake in all experiments (R>0,994). During the drying process the Peleg’s rate constant (K ₁) was affected by temperature. K ₁ values decreased with the increase of the drying temperature. This relation was linear for fluid-bed drying and exponential for halogen drying, which implied a higher impact of the drying temperature on the dehydration kinetics during halogen drying. The lower K ₁ values for fluid-bed drying suggested higher initial drying rates in comparison with halogen drying at all drying temperatures. The temperature dependence of 1/K ₁ …