The initial ascorbic acid content (CAAi), the final ascorbic acid content (CAAf) and the degradation percentage (DAA) of each experiment are listed in Table 2. The results show that experiments 2 and 4, conducted with higher voltages (equivalent to an electric field strength of 34 V cm1), presented higher DAA, approximately 10%.Moreover, experiment 7, conducted with the lowest voltage (electricfield strength of 21 V cm1), showed the lowest DAA of approximately3%. As observed in Table 2, independent of the solids content of the pulp, lower values of DAAwere obtained using lower voltages.