With increasing energy prices and the drive to reduce CO2 emissions, food industries are
challenged to find new technologies in order to reduce energy consumption, to meet legal …

Microwave-assisted extraction (MAE) or simply microwave extraction is a relatively new
extraction technique that combines microwave and traditional solvent extraction. Application …

Microwave-assisted extraction (MAE) is a process that removes solutes from a solid matrix
into a solvent. Phenomena such as electromagnetic transfer, heat transfer, mass transfer …

In recent times, bioactive compounds from plant samples are extracted using a microwave
extractor. This is because traditional methods of extraction are need of higher volume of …

Microwave-assisted extraction (MAE) or simply microwave extraction is a relatively new
extraction technique that combines microwave and traditional solvent extraction. Application …

Highlights•Food waste can be source of bioactive compounds.•The microwave assisted
extraction technique can be used.•Patents and work in the field are described.•Future …

The use of microwave energy was mentioned for the first time by Abu-Samra et al. in 1975.
They used domestic ovens in the laboratory to treat biological samples for metal trace …

Background Microwave-assisted extraction (MAE) have gained enormous popularity as a
preferred method for the recovery of various active compounds from food materials. They …

Plant secondary metabolites are known to be an important source of foods, fragrances,
pigment, drugs and so on. Extraction is one of the crucial steps for research and …

Microwave-assisted extraction is the process of using microwave energy to heat the
moisture present in the plant material or solvents in contact in order to extract natural …