LUND, Sweden (Reuters) — Giving brief electric shocks to fresh herbs before drying them could vastly improve the taste of dried herbs. So say food technologists and biologists at Sweden’s Lund University. Food technology researcher Federico Gomez has conducted experiments with basil leaves and found leaves dried after short electric shocks tasted and smelled almost as good as fresh. Basil leaf pores are naturally closed once they go through the drying process, but Gomez posited […]