Department of Processing and Food Process Engineering, College of Technology and Engineering, Rajasthan, India
Microwave assisted extraction is rapidly growing and flourished extraction technology. It is a process which extracts a specific element from a specific substance at a given condition. Mainly, these conditions include solvent type, solvent volume, solvent concentration, time of process, temperature of process & required power. In recent years, the need of microwave assisted extraction, in the field of extraction of bioactive compounds has been increased due to its efficient operational conditions. This paper shows the past research on microwave assisted extraction of bioactive compounds from plant and various modified microwave assisted extraction.