diff --git a/components/camel-kamelet/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/component/kamelet/KameletComponent.java b/components/camel-kamelet/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/component/kamelet/KameletComponent.java
index 241daa0248270..e612d186e20fa 100644
--- a/components/camel-kamelet/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/component/kamelet/KameletComponent.java
+++ b/components/camel-kamelet/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/component/kamelet/KameletComponent.java
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@
  */
 package org.apache.camel.component.kamelet;
 
+import java.net.URLDecoder;
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.HashMap;
@@ -132,6 +134,18 @@ protected Endpoint createEndpoint(String uri, String remaining, Map<String, Obje
         parameters.remove(PARAM_LOCATION);
         parameters.remove(PARAM_UUID);
 
+        // URL-decode non-RAW parameter values. The YAML DSL URL-encodes property values
+        // when building query strings (via URISupport.createQueryString), but useRawUri=true
+        // prevents automatic decoding during URI parsing. Decode here so values like
+        // "application/json" are not left as "application%2Fjson".
+        for (Map.Entry<String, Object> entry : parameters.entrySet()) {
+            if (entry.getValue() instanceof String s
+                    && !s.startsWith(URISupport.RAW_TOKEN_PREFIX + "(")
+                    && !s.startsWith(URISupport.RAW_TOKEN_PREFIX + "{")) {
+                entry.setValue(URLDecoder.decode(s, StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
+            }
+        }
+
         // manually need to resolve raw parameters as input to the kamelet because
         // resolveRawParameterValues is false
         // this ensures that parameters such as passwords are used as-is and not encoded
diff --git a/core/camel-base/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/component/properties/DefaultPropertiesParser.java b/core/camel-base/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/component/properties/DefaultPropertiesParser.java
index 43edd497bb15e..8b78d19146e82 100644
--- a/core/camel-base/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/component/properties/DefaultPropertiesParser.java
+++ b/core/camel-base/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/component/properties/DefaultPropertiesParser.java
@@ -514,7 +514,7 @@ private String doGetPropertyValue(String key, String defaultValue) {
             if (answer == null) {
                 answer = value;
             }
-            return answer;
+            return answer != null ? answer.trim() : null;
         }
     }