Isoeugenol is an essential oil constituent of nutmeg, clove, and cinnamon. Despite isoeugenol's promising antimicrobial activity, no studies have yet investigated its mode of antibacterial action at the molecular level. The aim of this study is to clarify isoeugenol's antibacterial mode of action using the Gram-negative and Gram-positive model organisms Escherichia coli and Listeria innocua, re...

Cryptococcosis is an emerging and recalcitrant systemic infection occurring in immunocompromised patients. This invasive fungal infection is difficult to treat due to the ability of Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus laurentii to form biofilms resistant to standard antifungal treatment. The toxicity concern of these drugs has stimulated the search for natural therapeutic alternatives. Ess...

The combination of essential oils (EOs) with antibiotics provides a promising strategy towards combating resistant bacteria. We have selected a mixture of 3 major components extracted from EOs: carvacrol (oregano oil), eugenol (clove oil) and cinnamaldehyde (cinnamon oil). These compounds were successfully encapsulated within lipid nanocapsules (LNCs). The EOs-loaded LNCs were characterised by ...

The “millifluidic” technique could be considered as a novel approach for encapsulation of bioactive compounds and has promising perspective in the field food engineering or pharmaceutical science. In this study, we aim to optimize cinnamon essential oil (CEO) by droplet-based millifluidic with four responses: efficiency (EE), loading capacity (LC), sphericity factor (SF) size calcium-alginate m...

Fresh-cut potatoes (Solanum tuberosum L.) are a popular food owing to their freshness, convenience, and health benefits. However, they might present potentially high risk consumers during transportation, processing, marketing. In the current study, 18 essential oils (EOs) were screened test antimicrobial activity against Listeria monocytogenes (LM), Salmonella typhimurium (ST), Staphylococcus a...

ABSTRACT This study proposes to examine the effect of supplementing diet slow-growing broilers with essential oils. A total 270 one-day-old female chicks Pesadão Vermelho line, reared in an intensive system, were allocated one three treatments (1: Control, without addition oils; 2: Feed supplemented cinnamon oil; and 3: lemongrass oil) a completely randomized design nine replicates 10 birds eac...