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ReviewFoods (Basel, Switzerland)2026

Natural Antimicrobials from Plants Used as Food Preservatives.

Antia G Pereira, Ana Perez-Vazquez, Paula Barciela, Ana O S Jorge, Ezgi Nur Yuksek, Miguel A Prieto

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Review in Foods (Basel, Switzerland), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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.

2 · The registry

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.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Antia G PereiraNutrition and Food Group (NuFoG), Instituto de Agroecoloxía e Alimentación (IAA), Campus Auga, Universidade de Vigo, 32004 Ourense, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-4095-7857
Ana Perez-VazquezNutrition and Food Group (NuFoG), Instituto de Agroecoloxía e Alimentación (IAA), Campus Auga, Universidade de Vigo, 32004 Ourense, Spain.
Paula BarcielaNutrition and Food Group (NuFoG), Instituto de Agroecoloxía e Alimentación (IAA), Campus Auga, Universidade de Vigo, 32004 Ourense, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-5795-8004
Ana O S JorgeNutrition and Food Group (NuFoG), Instituto de Agroecoloxía e Alimentación (IAA), Campus Auga, Universidade de Vigo, 32004 Ourense, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-8511-5987
Ezgi Nur YuksekNutrition and Food Group (NuFoG), Instituto de Agroecoloxía e Alimentación (IAA), Campus Auga, Universidade de Vigo, 32004 Ourense, Spain.ORCID 0009-0007-2491-4236
Miguel A PrietoNutrition and Food Group (NuFoG), Instituto de Agroecoloxía e Alimentación (IAA), Campus Auga, Universidade de Vigo, 32004 Ourense, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-3513-0054

Funding

Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia 2023.00981.BDMICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 DIN2024-013416Programa Iberoamericano de Ciencia y Tecnología para el Desarrollo CYTED- GENOPSYSEN, P222RT0117Xunta de Galicia ED481A-2024-230Xunta de Galicia IN606B-2024/011
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Plant-derived antimicrobial compounds are emerging as promising alternatives to synthetic preservatives in the food industry due to their efficacy against a broad spectrum of pathogenic and spoilage microorganisms, as well as their consumer acceptance. This review critically examines the main classes of bioactive phytochemicals, including essential oils, polyphenols, alkaloids, terpenoids, and saponins, comparing their relative antimicrobial effectiveness and highlighting representative examples. Notably, essential oils rich in thymol or carvacrol have shown strong inhibitory activity against

Indexed as

bioactive compoundsfood safetymicrobial inhibitionnatural preservativesphytochemicalsplant-based antimicrobialsshelf lifetoxicological assessment

Identifiers

PMID42073198
PMCPMC13114991

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