The Use of Microwave Radiation Energy to Process Cereal, Root and Tuber-based Products

Effect of electromagnetic irradiation of emmer wheat grain on the yield of flattened wholegrain cereal

“…However, it should be noted that many researchers also use household microwave ovens. This creates some errors in research, due to the imperfect distribution of electromagnetic radiation, because they were not designed for this purpose [25]. However, they provide an opportunity to study the necessary general aspects of the effect of microwave radiation on grain.…”

“…Microwave irradiation has a number of advantages and is widely used in food production: heating or thawing products, drying pasta, cooking, etc. In grain processing, microwave irradiation is used for disinfection, drying and improving the technological properties of grain, but there are recommendations [25] regarding introducing microwave irradiation as heat treatment of grain.…”

“…In [25,26], it is noted that in the food industry, magnetrons are commonly used as a microwave source. The operating irradiation frequency of magnetrons ranges from 915 to 2,450 MHz.…”

“…In [25,28,32], which studied microwave irradiation of cereal grains, no effective method was proposed in the production of flattened cereals, and the issue of processing emmer wheat into wholegrain flattened cereals using microwave irradiation was not studied. Mechanisms need to be found to change the yield and culinary quality of cereal depending on irradiation time and moistening of emmer wheat grain, which is an interesting question from a theoretical and practical point of view.…”