Table 3

Treatments	Color indices
	Brightness (L)	Greenness (–a)	Yellowness (+b)
Parsley (0min)	31.95^a	-1.35^ab	2.73^a
Parsley (1min)	28.28^a	-1.19^ab	2.68^a
Parsley (2min)	19.08^c	-0.78^b	1.98^b
Parsley (3min)	22.33^bc	-0.90^b	1.97^b
Dill (0 min)	24.25^bc	-1.50^a	2.32^ab
Dill (1min)	20.99^c	-1.49^a	2.07^ab
Dill (2min)	21.26^bc	-1.06^ab	1.98^b
Dill (3min)	18.93^bc	-0.70^b	0.63^c

Means followed by the same letter in each group are not significantly different (p>0.05).

Table 3: Effect of microwave heating on the color Indices of parsley and dill leaves.