Plants Extract and Essential Oil as Natural Preservatives in Foods: One-Decade Editorial Experiences

The researchers are fronting the increasing of knowledge in extraction, application, and also antioxidant and antimicrobial properties of plant extracts and essential oils. In recent decade, the journal "Applied Food Biotechnology" has been established a channel for scientists all around the world to share their own hypotheses, results, and conclusions. As a peer-reviewed multi-disciplinary biotechnological publication, it covers several scopes which one important one is food microbiology. In this context, the journal has published several reports on food application of plant extracts and essential oils. The aim of this text is to determine the main categories of published articles in this context in the Journal of "Applied Food Biotechnology" and so on by editors. It seems that research tend to show the effective function of essential oils, as well as comparison of free and encapsulated forms as antimicrobial and antioxidant agents in food. With the aim of holding the potential to alleviate certain complexities, enhance yield, and simplify the isolation process of bioactive metabolites or their individual components, research has played a significant role in reducing production cost of essential oil and herbal extract.