“…Osmotic dehydration is the most reported pretreatment used prior to air-drying [2,4,18,29,39], and it can be used to improve nutritional, sensorial and functional properties of food without changing the integrity of the foods [33,55,56]. However, among emerging new technologies, ultrasonically assisted osmotic dehydration is very promising because the process can be carried out at low temperatures, which reduces the probability of food degradation [31] and permits the removal of moisture content from solids without producing a liquid phase change [18].…”