Quick Drying of Flower Petals and Leaves in Microwave Oven

摘要

Road sides of rural and hilly areas are covered with different types of colourful flowers and foliage (domesticated, semi-domesticated or wild) at different seasons round the year. In spite of aesthetic beauty all these natural resources are totally unutilized/wasted due to unawareness of their use. All these can be converted into value added products by using dehydration technique. Different techniques have been standardized for dehydration. The optimum stage, time of harvesting and time required for dehydration have been extensively studied and standardized. Present article reports 3 quick method for dehydration and preparation of quality raw materials using microwave oven.