Background: Bacillus cereus is a spore-forming food-borne pathogen often associated with food products such as meat, vegetables, soup, rice, and milk and other dairy products. 1 - 20 % of total outbreaks of food intoxication in the world are caused by Bacillus cereus. There is an increasing interest in the use of plant-derived antimicrobial compounds as natural preservatives for foods. Such as ...

Plants used in popular diet were studied for anti-Helicobacter pylori activity and their effect on the expression of interleukin-8 (IL-8) from H. pylori infected gastric epithelial cells. Extracts were prepared of Allium sativum (A. sativum), Cuminum cyminum (C. cyminum), Piper nigrum (P. nigrum) and their mix in two different dilutions. AGS cell line and H. pylori strains were used for co-cult...

Bioassays were conducted to assess the contact toxicity of two plant essential oils against adults of Sitophilus granarius (L.) and Tribolium confusum Jacquelin du Val. Essential oils were extracted from seeds of Carum copticum L. and Cuminum cyminum L. Contact toxicity was assessed by topical application and adult mortality was counted 1, 2, 6 and 24 h after exposure. Bioassays were carried ou...

Seeds of cumin (Cuminum cyminum L.) are widely used as a spice for their distinctive aroma. C. have been in traditional medicine to treat variety diseases. Literature presents ample evidence biomedical activities which is attributed its bioactive secondary metabolites - terpenes, phenols, and flavonoids. Besides, health effects seeds experimentally validated through phytochemical analysis depic...

abstract       background and objective: the aim of this study was to determine the chemical composition, antibacterial and antifungal effects of thymus vulgaris and cuminum cyminum essential oils against foodborne pathogens and candida species in vitro.       methods: the essential oils were extracted from the aerial parts of thymus vulgaris and dried cuminum cyminum seeds using a clevenger ap...