Synergistic Antioxidant and Antibacterial Advantages of Essential Oils for Food Packaging Applications.

ABSTRACT: The development of food-borne and infectious diseases has increased globally at an anomalous rate and is combined with emerging social and economic problems. This highlights the need for new and improved antibacterial agents with novel and different mechanisms of action at regular intervals. Some chemical or artificial food additives are considered harmful if they are used beyond their permissible levels. Today, consumers are demanding alternative, green, safer, and natural food additives to increase the shelf life of food. Essential oils (EOs) are concentrated liquid mixtures of volatile compounds with antioxidant and antibacterial properties that can be used as natural, eco-friendly, renewable, and cost-effective additives. The use of combinations of different EOs and their components is

SUBMITTER: Basavegowda N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8466708 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature