The Impact of Carbonic Maceration Pretreatment on the Convective Drying of Seedless Grapes: RSM Optimization, Drying Characteristics and Microstructure.

In the last 2 decades, Turkey and the United States have produced half of the world's dried grape production. Sultani seedless grape, used as a material in the study, is the most important grape variety since being economically growing in Turkiye for dried grape production and its exportation. The aim of the present study was to investigate the drying of seedless grapes by carbonic maceration (CM) pretreatment and following hot air drying.