The drying of juicy horticultural raw materials usually takes a lot of time and considerable heating energy costs. To reduce both the duration of drying and specific heat energy cost it is proposed a combined treatment of raw materials before the drying process. The raw material is plasmolysed with bipolar pulses on the first stage and up to 30% of juice is separated by extrusion on the second stage. The dependences of moisture content of raw material on the mode and duration of drying are established (Fig. 1, 2).  Fig. 1 (curves 1-3) illustrates the drying process dynamics. It is seen that without using electroplasmolysis with bipolar pulses (curve 1) the standard moisture content of 20% is achieved in 35 hours. At the same time, the drying after electroplasmolysis and separation of 25% of juice by extrusion permits to achieve the standard moisture content in 15 hours, thus the drying process duration is reduced by more than two times. It follows from Fig. 2 (curves 1 – 4) that drying without electroplasmolysis and without removal of cuticles (curve 1) lasts 2.5 hours longer in comparison with drying with removal of cuticles (curve 3). After treatment with electroplasmolysis of raw materials and separation of 25% of juice by extrusion the moisture content achieves the standard moisture content in 15 hours while the drying process (curve 1) without treatment with electroplasmolysis and without removal of cuticles achieves the standard moisture content in 27.5 hours, that is it lasts two times longer.  We can conclude that the application of bipolar pulses with partial juice separation and subsequent drying at temperatures below 75 ^oC provides both two-fold performance boost and reduction of specific energy costs on drying up to 40%, what is interesting from a scientific point of view and worth attention of engineers.