Essential Oils in Food Preservation: Advances in Recovery and Utilisation
This special issue belongs to the section "Food Packaging and Preservation".
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Recent trends in food preservation favour the use of natural materials. Essential oils, from a wide range of sources, are prime candidates for a variety of preservation applications due to their potential antioxidant, antimicrobial, and antifungal properties. This issue invites submissions, research articles as well as reviews, exploring the extraction, isolation, stabilisation, and utilisation of essential oils for the purposes of enhancing food stability and quality. Essential oils recovered from conventional as well as underutilised sources are of interest, as are applications covering foods of plant and animal origin. We believe that consumer demand for natural ways of preservation will only strengthen in the future, and it is very important for scientists and practitioners to be informed of the latest advances in the field.
Prof. Dr. Costas Stathopoulos
Dr. Pavel Kloucek
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- essential oils
- extraction
- quantification
- antimicrobial activity
- antifungal activity
- antioxidant activity
- flavour
- encapsulation
- utilisation
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Published Papers
Foods - ISSN 2304-8158