Antimicrobial Properties of Encapsulated Antimicrobial Natural Plant Products for Ready-to-Eat Carrots

Antimicrobial Treatments to Preserve Packaged Ready-to-Eat Table Grapes

Ready-to-eat table grapes are a product with severe shelf life problems. Mass loss, colour changes, accelerated softening and mould proliferation can greatly influence quality decay of berries. Hence, the effects of different dipping treatments on the quality of packaged ready-to-eat table grapes have been successfully assessed. Various antimicrobial compounds (trans-2-hexenal, potassium sorbat...

Antimicrobial Natural Products

Natural antimicrobials are secondary metabolites that can be found in plants, animals, and microorganisms.Plants, especially herbs and spices, are been given more attention in natural antimicrobial research, however; this chapter focuses on the newly discoveries in fruits and vegetables. Microorganisms that are been used in food fermentation also produce different antimicrobial metabolites incl...

Antimicrobial natural products

The efficiency of antibiotics in combating microbial infections was very promising shortly after their introduction. It was even thought that the microbial war was as good as over as was declared by the Surgeon General of the United States. However, resistance to these agents developed rapidly afterward and the problem of antibiotic resistance has remained a menace threatening the benefits of a...

Antimicrobial natural products

To prevent and treat diseases caused by the spread of microbes, humans have invented all sorts of effective antimicrobial substances. The most widely used antimicrobial substance is antibiotics. However, misuse of antibiotics can generate various negative effects, bacterial resistance, decreased immunity, and internal flora imbalance which can lead to endogenous infection. In addition, existing...

Anticancer and Antimicrobial Potential of Plant-Derived Natural Products