An overview of natural antimicrobials role in food

AM Pisoschi, A Pop, C Georgescu, V Turcuş… - European Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
The present paper aims to review the natural food preservatives with antimicrobial
properties emphasizing their importance for the future of food manufacturing and consumers' …

Natural products as antimicrobial agents

R Gyawali, SA Ibrahim - Food control, 2014 - Elsevier
The use of natural antimicrobial compounds in food has gained much attention by the
consumers and the food industry. This is due primarily to two major factors. First, the misuse …

Review on natural preservatives for extending fish shelf life

J Mei, X Ma, J Xie - Foods, 2019 - mdpi.com
Fish is extremely perishable as a result of rapid microbial growth naturally present in fish or
from contamination. Synthetic preservatives are widely used in fish storage to extend shelf …

Seaweeds: A sustainable functional food for complementary and alternative therapy

S Mohamed, SN Hashim, HA Rahman - Trends in food science & …, 2012 - Elsevier
Edible seaweeds are rich in bioactive antioxidants, soluble dietary fibers, proteins, minerals,
vitamins, phytochemicals, and polyunsaturated fatty acids. Although previously the …

Actinomycetes in relation to taste and odour in drinking water: myths, tenets and truths

B Zaitlin, SB Watson - Water research, 2006 - Elsevier
Actinomycetes are a complex group of bacteria present in a wide variety of environments,
either as dormant spores or actively growing. Some actinomycetes produce two potent …

Antimicrobial activity of seaweeds extracts against multiresistant pathogens

S Shanmughapriya, A Manilal, S Sujith, J Selvin… - Annals of …, 2008 - Springer
Fourteen seaweeds collected from the intertidal zone of Southwest coast of India were
tested against ten human pathogen bacteria and one human pathogen fungus using the …

Characterization of antibacterial activity from protein hydrolysates of the macroalga Saccharina longicruris and identification of peptides implied in bioactivity

L Beaulieu, S Bondu, K Doiron, LE Rioux… - Journal of Functional …, 2015 - Elsevier
The macroalga Saccharina longicruris proteins were extracted and hydrolysed with the
enzyme trypsin in order to recover antibacterial peptides, which could be used in reducing …

Seasonal variation in antifungal, antibacterial and acetylcholinesterase activity in seven South African seaweeds

WA Stirk, DL Reinecke, J van Staden - Journal of Applied Phycology, 2007 - Springer
Seven seaweeds were collected from the intertidal zone at Rocky Bay on the east coast of
South Africa. The species were Caulerpa racemosa var. laetevirens, Codium capitatum …

Evaluating the antibacterial and antibiofilm potential of sulphated polysaccharides extracted from green algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

J Vishwakarma, SL Vavilala - Journal of Applied Microbiology, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Aim of the study In this study, antibacterial and antibiofilm potential of sulphated
polysaccharides (SPs) extracted from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (Cr) was evaluated …

[HTML][HTML] 24-Branched Δ5 sterols from Laurencia papillosa red seaweed with antibacterial activity against human pathogenic bacteria

K Kavita, VK Singh, B Jha - Microbiological research, 2014 - Elsevier
Methanol extract of thirty-eight seaweeds samples were first screened against Gram-positive
(Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 25923 and Bacillus subtilis ATCC 6051) and-negative …