“…However, a long extraction period of 2 h was inevitable in that process. Recently, microwave-assisted extraction (MAE) has been used as an alternative to conventional methods in the extraction of natural products (Fulzele and Satdive, 2005;Rostagno et al, 2007;Chen et al, 2008), environmental sample (Serrano and Gallego, 2006;Jamali et al, 2009), medicine and food safety analyte (Desrosiers et al, 2009;Ferná ndez et al, 2009;Khajeh, 2009). MAE is an extraction technique that combines microwave and traditional solvent extraction (Khajeh, 2009).…”