“…Advantage of microwave rapid heating is renowned for numerous applications, such as, heating (Karabulut & Baykal, 2002;Sakia, Mao, Koshima, & Watanabe, 2005), thawing (Taher & Farid, 2001), blanching (Chen, Colins, Mcarty, & Young, 1971), pasteurization and sterilization (Wang, Wig, Tang, & Hallberg, 2003), and drying (Adu & Otten, 1996;Feng & Tang, 1998;Feng, Tang, Mattinson, & Fellman, 1999;Goksu, Sumnu, & Esin, 2005;Khraisheh, McMinn, & Magee, 2004;Krokida & Maroulis, 1999;Piotrowski, Lenart, & Wardzyń ski, 2004;Tulasidas, Raghavan, & Mujumdar, 1995). Venkatesh and Raghavan (2004) also provided a comprehensive review of microwave processing applications.…”