A review of microwaves for food processing

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Summary: Ideas for the application of microwave heating to the processing of food are reviewed. A selection has been made of ideas for pasteurizing, sterilizing, defrosting, dehydrating, cooking and other applications that are described in the literature. Several are discussed to illustrate particular aspects and characteristics of microwave processing, and to try and show some reasons for the successes and failures.Microwave heating on its own has led to few commercially successful processes; however, when combined with conventional sources of heat, microwave heating appears to have greater potential, and has led to several successful processes.