Nanoencapsulation of Essential Oils as Natural Food Antimicrobial Agents: An Overview

The global demand for safe and healthy food with minimal synthetic preservatives is continuously increasing. Natural antimicrobials especially essential oils (EOs) possess strong antimicrobial activities that could play a remarkable role as novel source of preservatives. Despite the excellent efficacy EOs, they have not been widely used in industry due to some major intrinsic barriers, such low water solubility, bioavailability, volatility, stability systems. Recent advances nanotechnology potential address these existing barriers order use EOs systems at doses. Thus, this review, we explored latest using natural actives agents different strategies nanoencapsulation purpose. state art concerning antibacterial properties will be summarized, main applications nanoencapsulated presented. This review should help researchers better choose most suitable encapsulation techniques materials.