Essential oils: Sources of antimicrobials and food preservatives

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue JAN, 2017, Pages

  Pandey, Abhay K ^a   Kumar, Pradeep ^b   Singh, Pooja ^a   Tripathi, Nijendra N ^a   Bajpai, Vivek K ^c  

^a D D U GORAKHPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b NORTH EASTERN REGIONAL INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c Yeungnam University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Antibacterial; Antifungal; Bioactivity; Essential oils; Food preservative properties

Indexed keywords

BENZALDEHYDE; BENZOIC ACID; CAROTENOID; CINNAMALDEHYDE; CINNAMIC ACID; CITRAL; COUMARIN; CURCUMIN; ESSENTIAL OIL; FOOD PRESERVATIVE; GERANIOL; LINALOOL; MENTHOL; MYRISTIC ACID; PHENOL; TERPENE; TERPENOID;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BLACK CUMIN; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CYMBOPOGON CITRATUS; DRUG POTENCY; FOOD INDUSTRY; FOOD STORAGE; FUNGICIDAL ACTIVITY; LD50; NEUROSPORA SITOPHILA; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PENICILLIUM DIGITATUM; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PULICARIA; SHORT SURVEY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 85012014469     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.02161     Document Type: Review

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