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 food antimicrobials and especially essential oils (EOs) possess strong antimicrobial activities that could play a remarkable role as a novel source of food preservatives. Despite the...
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| author | Wei Liao Waisudin Badri Emilie Dumas Sami Ghnimi Abdelhamid Elaissari Rémi Saurel Adem Gharsallaoui |
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| description | The global demand for safe and healthy food with minimal synthetic preservatives is continuously increasing. Natural food antimicrobials and especially essential oils (EOs) possess strong antimicrobial activities that could play a remarkable role as a novel source of food preservatives. Despite the excellent efficacy of EOs, they have not been widely used in the food industry due to some major intrinsic barriers, such as low water solubility, bioavailability, volatility, and stability in food systems. Recent advances in nanotechnology have the potential to address these existing barriers in order to use EOs as preservatives in food systems at low doses. Thus, in this review, we explored the latest advances of using natural actives as antimicrobial agents and the different strategies for nanoencapsulation used for this purpose. The state of the art concerning the antibacterial properties of EOs will be summarized, and the main latest applications of nanoencapsulated antimicrobial agents in food systems will be presented. This review should help researchers to better choose the most suitable encapsulation techniques and materials. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-89ec028af5a541a793751d966f430cf72023-11-22T01:10:13ZengMDPI AGApplied Sciences2076-34172021-06-011113577810.3390/app11135778Nanoencapsulation of Essential Oils as Natural Food Antimicrobial Agents: An OverviewWei Liao0Waisudin Badri1Emilie Dumas2Sami Ghnimi3Abdelhamid Elaissari4Rémi Saurel5Adem Gharsallaoui6Laboratoire d’Automatique, de Génie des Procédés et de Génie Pharmaceutique, CNRS, University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 43 Bd 11 Novembre 1918, 69622 Villeurbanne, FranceLaboratoire d’Automatique, de Génie des Procédés et de Génie Pharmaceutique, CNRS, University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 43 Bd 11 Novembre 1918, 69622 Villeurbanne, FranceLaboratoire d’Automatique, de Génie des Procédés et de Génie Pharmaceutique, CNRS, University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 43 Bd 11 Novembre 1918, 69622 Villeurbanne, FranceLaboratoire d’Automatique, de Génie des Procédés et de Génie Pharmaceutique, CNRS, University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 43 Bd 11 Novembre 1918, 69622 Villeurbanne, FranceInstitute of Analytical Sciences, CNRS, University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 69622 Villeurbanne, FranceProcédés Alimentaires Et Microbiologiques, L’Unité Mixte de Recherche, University Bourgogne Franche-Comté, AgroSup Dijon, F-21000 Dijon, FranceLaboratoire d’Automatique, de Génie des Procédés et de Génie Pharmaceutique, CNRS, University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 43 Bd 11 Novembre 1918, 69622 Villeurbanne, FranceThe global demand for safe and healthy food with minimal synthetic preservatives is continuously increasing. Natural food antimicrobials and especially essential oils (EOs) possess strong antimicrobial activities that could play a remarkable role as a novel source of food preservatives. Despite the excellent efficacy of EOs, they have not been widely used in the food industry due to some major intrinsic barriers, such as low water solubility, bioavailability, volatility, and stability in food systems. Recent advances in nanotechnology have the potential to address these existing barriers in order to use EOs as preservatives in food systems at low doses. Thus, in this review, we explored the latest advances of using natural actives as antimicrobial agents and the different strategies for nanoencapsulation used for this purpose. The state of the art concerning the antibacterial properties of EOs will be summarized, and the main latest applications of nanoencapsulated antimicrobial agents in food systems will be presented. This review should help researchers to better choose the most suitable encapsulation techniques and materials.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/11/13/5778essential oilsantimicrobial activitynanoencapsulationfood preservation |
| spellingShingle | Wei Liao Waisudin Badri Emilie Dumas Sami Ghnimi Abdelhamid Elaissari Rémi Saurel Adem Gharsallaoui Nanoencapsulation of Essential Oils as Natural Food Antimicrobial Agents: An Overview Applied Sciences essential oils antimicrobial activity nanoencapsulation food preservation |
| title | Nanoencapsulation of Essential Oils as Natural Food Antimicrobial Agents: An Overview |
| title_full | Nanoencapsulation of Essential Oils as Natural Food Antimicrobial Agents: An Overview |
| title_fullStr | Nanoencapsulation of Essential Oils as Natural Food Antimicrobial Agents: An Overview |
| title_full_unstemmed | Nanoencapsulation of Essential Oils as Natural Food Antimicrobial Agents: An Overview |
| title_short | Nanoencapsulation of Essential Oils as Natural Food Antimicrobial Agents: An Overview |
| title_sort | nanoencapsulation of essential oils as natural food antimicrobial agents an overview |
| topic | essential oils antimicrobial activity nanoencapsulation food preservation |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/11/13/5778 |
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