Garlic, a common culinary spice, is cultivated and used around the globe. Consumption of
garlic and its supplements reduces the risk of diabetes and cardiovascular disease and …

The structural heterogeneities of fruits and vegetables intensify the complexity to
comprehend the interrelated physicochemical changes that occur during drying. Shrinkage …

Various drying techniques play an important role in foodstuff preservation. However, the role
of different drying techniques on garlic quality is limited. The purpose of this study was to …

Ginger (Zingiber officinale Roscoe) is a popular culinary herb used in the Eastern culture.
The essential cultivar of the Zingiber genus is rich in antioxidants and is crucial in the fight …

Ultrasound was combined with ethanol to improve different aspects of carrot convective
drying, evaluating both processing and product quality. The ultrasound in water treatment …

The drying kinetics of wolfberry was investigated in a pulsed vacuum dryer using far-infrared
radiation heating at different vacuum pressure durations (10, 15, and 20 min), ambient …

The influence of various drying methods, namely hot-air drying (HAD), heat pump drying
(HPD), freeze-drying (FD), and microwave freeze drying (MFD), on the structural …

An indirect-type triple-pass forced convection solar dryer has been developed and the
performance parameters such as thermal, pickup and exergy efficiency are studied for …

Food convective drying is a multiphysics problem coupling the fluid flow, heat transfer, mass
transfer and shrinkage, on which a series of numerical simulation has been performed …

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of adding pre-treatment to solar dried
sweet potato chips. The tested pre-treatments were blanching using hot water and saline …