“…On the contrary, the optimization of hot air oven drying process parameters based on RSM has been addressed for cauliflower (Gupta, Sehgal, & Arora, 2013), tomato slices (Abano, Ma, & Qu, 2014), and red currant (Šumić et al, 2016). Similar RSMbased optimization studies are reported for lettuce (Yuan, Tan, Xu, Yuan, & Dong, 2016) and chanterelle mushroom (Šumić et al, 2017) using hot air-vacuum and vacuum drying, respectively. The available literature indicates the following lacunae.…”