Contamination of food by spoilage and pathogenic microorganisms is a major challenge to
public health, food security and sustainability. As a response, there has been a growing …

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 …

Essential oils are a complex mixture of odoriferous, volatile organic compounds. There are
an extensive number of published articles which highlight the antimicrobial action of a …

A wide range of medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs) have been explored for their
essential oils in the past few decades. Essential oils are complex volatile compounds …

The genus Cinnamomum includes a number of plant species largely used as food, food
additives and spices for a long time. Different traditional healing systems have used these …

This study examines the chemical constituents, antioxidant potential, antibacterial
mechanism, and antiproliferative activity of Cinnamomum zeylanicum bark essential oil. The …

Plant essential oils (EOs) possesses remarkable antimicrobial efficacy and therefore have
great potential as an alternative of health hazardous synthetic preservatives. In spite of …

This chapter talks about antimicrobial compounds that are divided into two classes:
traditional and naturally occurring. Antimicrobials are classified as traditional when they (i) …

Abstract Background In traditional medicine Cinnamon is considered a remedy for
respiratory, digestive and gynaecological ailments. In-vitro and in-vivo studies from different …

Egyptian hieroglyphs, Chinese scrolls, and Ayurvedic literature record physicians
administering aromatic oils to their patients. Today society looks to science to document …