“…The main advantages of drying are a decrease in feedstuff moisture and transport costs, inhibition of the growth of microorganisms, reduction of enzymatic and chemical reactions, and increased shelf life among others. In the literature, a different method of drying on cladodes has been reported: osmoticconvective (Medina-Torres, Gallegos-Infante, Gonzalez-Laredo, & Rocha-Guzman, 2008), forced convection tunnel (López et al, 2009), infrared drying (Touil, Chemkhi, & Zagrouba, 2014), convective transversal flow (Díaz-Ayala, Álvarez-García, & Simá-Moo, 2015), forced air circulation (Pereira et al, 2017), convective-vacuum (Dey et al, 2019). These studies have presented good results for considering drying as an appropriate method to preserve or transform cactus cladode.…”