FOOD SCIENCE ›› 2007, Vol. 28 ›› Issue (7): 335-338.

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Study on Selection and Combination of Antifungal Natural Preservatives from Plants

 WANG  Sheng, ZHOU  Tao   

  1. Department of Food Science and Technology, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210097, China
  • Online:2007-07-15 Published:2011-10-24

Abstract: To select optimum natural preservatives, we studied the antifungal effect of liquid from medical plants extracted by alcohol, and did antifungal experiment using some of them, which had stronger inhabited effect to combine. Then experiment got better optimum ratio which was obtained by the orthogonal design. The results showed that the stronger antimicrobial activities medical plants were Prunusmume S., Cinnamomum cassia Presl, Illicium verum and Syzygium aromaticum. The optimum ratio 8:5:2:8 and MIC 2.5~5.0mg/ml.

Key words: plants, natural preservatives, combination, antifungal activities