Microwave applications in the food industry: An overview of recent developments

P Guzik, P Kulawik, M Zając… - Critical Reviews in Food …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Microwave radiation has the ability to heat a material with dielectric properties. Material
absorbs microwave energy and then converts it into heat, which gives the possibility of a …

Advances in vacuum microwave drying (VMD) systems for food products

L González-Cavieres, M Pérez-Won… - Trends in Food Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Drying is one of the oldest preservation techniques used in the food industry.
This technology has evolved and different drying systems have been applied, such as …

A critical review on drying of food materials: recent progress and key challenges

S Bhattacharjee, P Mohanty, JK Sahu… - … Communications in Heat …, 2024 - Elsevier
One important problem that is closely related to developing and refining novel drying
techniques is the deterioration of aromatic herbs, fruits, and vegetables during the drying …

The comparison of drying and rehydration characteristics of intermittent-microwave and hot-air dried-apple slices

TK Tepe, B Tepe - Heat and Mass Transfer, 2020 - Springer
The influence of intermittent-microwave drying and hot-air drying on drying characteristics
and rehydration properties of apple slices were compared. Microwave powers have crucially …

Review of recent applications and research progress in hybrid and combined microwave-assisted drying of food products: Quality properties

M Zielinska, E Ropelewska, HW Xiao… - Critical Reviews in …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The growing concerns over product quality have increased demand for high quality dried
food products and encouraged researchers to explore and producers of such products to …

Ethanol pre-treatment improves vegetable drying and rehydration: Kinetics, mechanisms and impact on viscoelastic properties

ML Rojas, PED Augusto - Journal of food engineering, 2018 - Elsevier
Drying is a complex unit operation widely applied in food processing. There is still an
increasing interest to enhance the process, as well as the product quality and properties. In …

Ultrasound-and microwave-assisted intermittent drying of red beetroot

J Szadzińska, D Mierzwa, A Pawłowski… - Drying …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
A drying technique using a combination of high power airborne ultrasound, microwaves and
hot air was applied to investigate the effect of intermittent drying on the process kinetics and …

Osmotic dehydration: More than water loss and solid gain

FR Abrahão, JLG Corrêa - Critical Reviews in Food Science and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The immersion of food in a hypertonic solution results in an osmotic dehydration process
(OD) with the loss of water (WL) from the food to the solution and the gain of solids from the …

Effect of ultrasound pre-treatment on the kinetics and thermodynamic properties of guava slices drying process

NC Santos, RLJ Almeida, GM da Silva… - Innovative Food Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
The present work aims to evaluate the influence of sonication pre-treatment on the drying
kinetics of guava circular slices in electric oven. Circular guava slices with 6.0 mm thickness …

Use of artificial intelligence for the estimation of effective moisture diffusivity, specific energy consumption, color and shrinkage in quince drying

E Taghinezhad, M Kaveh… - Journal of Food …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In the study, drying process of quince fruit was accomplished in a microwave‐convective
dryer (MCD). The experiments were carried out at microwave power levels of 100, 200, and …