Application of encapsulated essential oils as antimicrobial agents in food packaging

R Ribeiro-Santos, M Andrade… - Current Opinion in Food …, 2017 - Elsevier
Highlights•Essential oils have great potential as natural antimicrobial agents in food
packaging.•Micro and nanoencapsulation techniques improve the biological activities of
essential oils.•Essential oils nanoparticles applied to food packaging comprise a new class
of effective antimicrobial nanocomposites.Recently natural antimicrobials have attracted a
great deal of attention from the food industry. Innovations in food packaging have also been
focused on the incorporation of these active additives in polymer matrices with the purpose …
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