Ebook "Vacuum drying for extending food shelf-life" is based on scientific articles published from the 1940s to the present, and is divided into five chapters: the first is an introduction to the use of vacuum in food processes; the second, third and fourth comprise advances on the most relevant vacuum drying techniques applied to food, namely conventional vacuum drying, freeze-drying and microwave-vacuum drying and the fifth deals with studies where vacuum drying techniques were compared to other drying techniques in terms of quality and/or engineering aspects. |
