Food packaging can be considered as a passive barrier that protects food from
environmental factors such as ultraviolet light, oxygen, water vapour, pressure and heat. It …

Spice plants have a great influence on world history. For centuries, different civilizations
have used them to condiment the foods of kings and nobles and applied them as embalming …

Gelatin is one of the most widely used hydrocolloids; mammalian, poultry, and fish wastes
are an exciting source for gelatin production. The market size of gelatin will reach 5.0 billion …

The interest in using natural antimicrobials instead of chemical preservatives in food
products has been increasing in recent years. In regard to this, essential oils—natural and …

Background Consumer concern on the use of naturally-occurring antimicrobials from plants,
microorganisms and animal sources continues to grow daily, mostly triggered by the …

Due to the concern of consumers about the presence of synthetic preservatives, researchers
and food manufacturers have recently conducted extensive research on the limited use of …

The production of safe foods with little or no artificial preservatives is one of the foremost
leading challenges for food manufacturing industries because synthetic antimicrobial agents …

Fruit and vegetable processing industry is one of the relevant generators of food by-
products, which display limited commercial exploitation entailing economic and …

The problem of drug resistance of food borne pathogens is becoming more and more
serious. Although traditional antimicrobial agents have good therapeutic effects on a variety …

Novel starch-based packaging films with sustained antibacterial activity were successfully
made by incorporating polyurethane-encapsulated essential-oil microcapsules (EOs@ PU) …