1 Department of Agricultural and Food Engineering, IIT, Kharagpur - 721 302.
2 Division of Post, Harvest Technology, IARI, New Delhi - 110 012.
3 Division of Agricultural Engineering, IARI, New Delhi - 110 012.
Radio frequency (RF) heating is an emerging technology in food processing and preservation due to its distinct advantages like uniform heat distribution, large penetration depth, low energy consumption, and providing safe and good quality food products. RF heating could be applied for baking, drying, thawing of frozen foods, pasteurization and sterilization, blanching of vegetables, post harvest insect control and aseptic processing of particulate food. A review of the major application of RF heating in food processing has been presented in this paper.
