Biological Significance of Spicy Essential Oils
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Spice essential oils are complex mixtures of volatile substances, ordinarily terpenes, sesquiterpenes and oxygenated derivatives as mentioned in this paper, which have been largely employed for their properties already observed in nature i.e., for their antibacterial, antifungal and insecticidal properties.Abstract:
Spices are used as food additives since ancient times, as flavouring agents but also as natural food preservatives. Spice essential oils are complex mixtures of volatile substances, ordinarily terpenes, sesquiterpenes and oxygenated derivatives. They have been largely employed for their properties already observed in nature i.e., for their antibacterial, antifungal and insecticidal properties. At present, approximately 3000 essential oils are known, 300 of which are commercially important especially for pharmaceutical, agronomic, food, sainitary, cosmetic and perfume industries. It is important to develop a better understanding of their mode of action for new applications in human health, agriculture and environment. Some of them constitute effective alternatives or complements to synthetic compounds of chemical industry.read more
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Essential Oils of Herbs and Spices: Their Antimicrobial Activity and Application in Preservation of Food
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Antibacterial activity of basil essential oil ( Ocimum basilicum L.) in Italian-type sausage
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the antibacterial activity of basil essential oil in vitro and in Italian-type sausage and found that the essential oil showed a positive influence on reducing the count of Staphylococcus aureus until the 14th day of storage and there was no influence on fermentative lactic and Micrococcaceae bacteria.
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Enas M. Ali,Heba Abd El-Moaty +1 more
TL;DR: The oil mixture (1:1) showed best antifungal activities and exhibited antioxidant activity and recorded radical scavenging activity, in line with the fact that essential oils are could be used in treatment of hepatic fungal infection induced by CP.
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