Application of essential oils in packaging films for the preservation of fruits and vegetables: A review

AB Perumal, L Huang, RB Nambiar, Y He, X Li… - Food chemistry, 2022 - Elsevier
Fruits and vegetables are highly perishable in nature. Several factors could affect the quality
and shelf life of fruits and vegetables. Packaging materials (usually made up of polymers …

Encapsulation and delivery systems of cinnamon essential oil for food preservation applications

W Zhang, P Ezati, A Khan, E Assadpour… - Advances in Colloid and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Food safety threats and deterioration due to the invasion of microorganisms has led to
economic losses and food-borne diseases in the food industry; so, development of natural …

Biocontrol potential of essential oils in organic horticulture systems: From farm to fork

Y Chang, PF Harmon, DD Treadwell, D Carrillo… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
In recent decades, increasing attention has been paid to food safety and organic
horticulture. Thus, people are looking for natural products to manage plant diseases, pests …

Chitosan-cinnamon essential oil/sodium alginate-TiO2 bilayer films with enhanced bioactive retention property: Application for mango preservation

T Wang, Z Yang, C Zhang, X Zhai, X Zhang… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
The bilayer anti-ultraviolet preservation films were developed successfully by incorporating
the cinnamon essential oil (CEO) to chitosan (CH) as the bioactive layer, and incorporating …

Encapsulation of cinnamaldehyde: An insight on delivery systems and food applications

B Muhoza, B Qi, JD Harindintwali… - Critical reviews in …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Cinnamaldehyde is an essential oil extracted from the leaves, bark, roots and flowers of
cinnamon plants (genus Cinnamomum). Cinnamaldehyde has shown biological functions …

Microbial load reduction in stored raw beef meat using chitosan/starch-based active packaging films incorporated with cellulose nanofibers and cinnamon essential oil

K Sreekanth, KP Sharath, MD CD, D Mathew… - Meat Science, 2024 - Elsevier
Food safety is a global concern due to the risk posed by microbial pathogens, toxins and
food deterioration. Hence, materials with antibacterial and antioxidant properties have been …

Essential oils: An eco‐friendly alternative for controlling toxigenic fungi in cereal grains

NA Almeida, L Freire… - … reviews in food …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Fungi are widely disseminated in the environment and are major food contaminants,
colonizing plant tissues throughout the production chain, from preharvest to postharvest …

Effect of micro-and nano-sized emulsion fillers combined with trans-cinnamaldehyde on the physicochemical and rheological characteristics of myofibrillar protein gels

J Lee, YL **ong, MJ Choi - Food Hydrocolloids, 2023 - Elsevier
In this study, we investigated the influence of trans-cinnamaldehyde (CIN) and emulsion size
on the physicochemical properties and functionality of emulsion gels. Myofibrillar protein or …