Although the water loss was not higher, lower solid gain was obtained at this processing time.
However, for the samples submitted to ultrasound combined to vacuum (USVC), immersion time of 20 min was chosen, as a higher water loss could be obtained when comparing to an immersion of 10 min, and the Tukey test carried out for the solid gain showed that no statistical difference (95% confidence level) exists between processing time of 10 min and 20 min.