ArticleScientific reports2026
Application of cinnamon essential oil microcapsules in anti-fungal preservation of Spatholobi caulis.
Article in Scientific reports, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issued
Authors and funding
5 authors.
Funding
Abstract
Spatholobi Caulis (SC), a traditional Chinese medicinal material, is susceptible to fungal contamination during storage. This study aimed to compare the antifungal efficacy of plant-derived essential oils against the dominant fungal contaminants in SC and evaluate their potential applications in storage preservation. The dominant fungal strains contaminating SC during mildew development were isolated and identified through morphological and molecular biological analyses. An essential oil exhibiting significant antifungal activity against the dominant strains was screened via the filter paper diffusion assay and the poisoned medium technique. The microencapsulation protocol for essential oils was optimized using a Lorthogonal array design. The preservative efficacy of microencapsulated essential oils on SC was evaluated through accelerated aging tests. Four dominant fungal species were identified in mildewed SC: Penicillium implicatum (JXT-1), Talaromyces rugulosus (JXT-2), Aspergillus sydowii (JXT-3), and Aspergillus niger (JXT-4). Cinnamomum cassia essential oil demonstrated superior antifungal activity against these isolates, showing significantly greater efficacy than other tested essential oils. The optimized microencapsulation parameters were determined as: wall-to-core ratio (4:1), processing temperature (60 ± 0.5 °C), and duration (2.0 h), yielding an encapsulation efficiency of 68.03%. Accelerated stability testing revealed that microencapsulation significantly reduced both active component degradation and aflatoxin A accumulation compared to non-encapsulated controls. These results demonstrate that Cinnamomum cassia essential oil microcapsules effectively preserve SC quality by maintaining bioactive compound stability.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.