Pretreatment Of Nuts With Microwave Energy To Prevent Infestation With Improvement In Storability Of Food Grains

The present invention proposes a method for processing and improving storability of nuts, comprising the steps of heating said nuts in a microwave oven on a predetermined power level in the range of 240 Watt to 480 Watt for a predetermined exposure time in the range of 0sec to 24Osec.