Özet:

It is known that the chief benefit of natural products such as essential oils is that they do not increase antibiotic resistance compared to the long-term use of synthetic antibiotics. Essential oils demonstrate many applications in various sectors for medicinal, agriculture, food, and health purposes due to their antibacterial, antiviral, antifungal, anticarcinogenic, antimutagenic, anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties. Although essential oils have many useful properties, their chances of success and scale up at industrial level becomes a challenge because they possess some limiting factors in their use such as hydrophobic property (which needs to be encapsulated before use), high volatility, and high risk of deterioration upon direct exposure to heat, humidity, light, or oxygen. Therefore, encapsulation of essential oils with polymers would be the ideal method for the preservation of essential oils. This is because it offers benefits such as improved stability and water solubility, effective protection against degradation, prevention of volatile components evaporation and enhance antimicrobial activity against food-borne pathogens. It is clear from this review that using essential oils (EOs) encapsulation in biopolymer-based materials could be one of the strategies and promising antimicrobial agents for bacterial pathogens. However, further studies need to be done to research the properties of many other biopolymers encapsulated essential oils due to their promising contribution in reducing environmental solid waste caused by conventional plastics.

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