Best dried garlic quality was obtained with freeze drying
and microwave vacuum drying as a close second. On the
other hand there was a great loss in garlic pungency with
the hot air dried samples. Sharma and Prasad (2006) came
to a similar conclusion when comparing hot air drying with
microwave/convective drying of garlic. They obtained a
drying time reduction of 80% with superior quality dried
garlic when combining microwaves at 0.4 W g21 to hot air
at 60–708C.