Cereal Chem 66:483-485   |  VIEW ARTICLE

A Microwave Oven Procedure for Soybean Moisture Content Determination.

N. Sharma and M. A. Hanna. Copyright 1989 by the American Association of Cereal Chemists, Inc. 

A simple microwave oven technique was developed for rapid determination of soybean moisture. Samples of whole soybeans in the moisture range of 9-33% (wb) were partially dried by exposing them for different time intervals in a microwave oven. Mathematical relationships were developed that accurately predicted the moisture of the soybeans based on partial moisture loss. This technique of using partial drying for rapidly predicting moisture of whole soybeans precluded burning of the samples.