During osmotic dehydration, the vegetable cell usually suffers
different degrees of internal change, depending mainly on the concentration
and type of solute present in the solution. If the tissue is
highly injured by the presence of one or more of the solution components
or any other variable, the overall efficiency of the process
will be affected because the transfer mechanism occurs through
the cells. To investigate the influences of the tissue on the behavior
of the diffusivity coefficients, a discussion considering the microscopy
images of the cells can show some of the modifications occurring
due to the osmotic dehydration process.