“…From a technological point of view, the ultrasound seemed to be very promising, but unfortunately, in some cases, especially when a liquid medium during sonication was applied, substantial losses of bioactive compounds were reported (Stojanovic and Silva 2007;Opalić et al 2009;Pingret et al 2013). Although the available literature presents many experiments with ultrasound application before and during fruit and vegetable dehydration process (Siucińska and Konopacka 2014), the majority of them focus on monitoring the dynamics of mass transfer or physical properties, such as sugar gain, water loss, or changes in color or microstructure of plant tissue (Cárcel et al 2007;Deng and Zhao 2008;Garcia-Perez et al 2012;Nowacka et al 2012;Schössler et al 2012). With regard to phenolic compound retention during ultrasound-assisted fruit tissue treatment, the reports on negative effect of sonication on phenolic compound content and antioxidant activity (Stojanovic and Silva 2007;Opalić et al 2009), more often than not, indicate a positive influence (Keenan et al 2012).…”