Control Efficacy of Salicylic Acid Microcapsules against Postharvest Blue Mold in Apple Fruit.

Salicylic acid (SA) is a natural inducer of disease resistance in fruit, but its application in the food industry is limited due to low water solubility. Here, SA was encapsulated in β-cyclodextrin (β-CD) via the host-guest inclusion complexation method, and the efficacy of SA microcapsules (SAM) against blue mold caused by in postharvest apple fruit was elucidated. It was observed that SAM was the most effective in inhibiting the mycelial growth of in vitro.

Antibacterial Effect and Possible Mechanism of Salicylic Acid Microcapsules against and .

Microcapsules serve as a feasible formulation to load phenolic substances such as salicylic acid, a natural and safe antimicrobial agent. However, the antibacterial efficacy of salicylic acid microcapsules (SAMs) remains to be elucidated. Here, salicylic acid/β-cyclodextrin inclusion microcapsules were subjected to systematic antibacterial assays and preliminary antibacterial mechanism tests using and as target organisms.

Cinnamaldehyde microcapsules enhance bioavailability and regulate intestinal flora in mice.

The effects of cinnamaldehyde microcapsules on the concentration of cinnamaldehyde and its metabolites in plasma, urine, and feces, the antioxidant capacity, and the intestinal flora in male C57/BL6 mice were evaluated by oral administration for 7 weeks. Microencapsulation significantly increased the contents of cinnamaldehyde, cinnamyl alcohol, and methyl cinnamate in plasma and decreased those in urine and feces excretion ( < 0.05).

Formation of sacha inchi oil microemulsion systems: effects of non-ionic surfactants, short-chain alcohols, straight-chain esters and essential oils.

Background: This study reports the formation of sacha inchi oil (SIO) microemulsions for food and cosmetic applications. Effects of non-ionic surfactants, short-chain alcohols, essential oil and straight-chain esters on the phase behavior and formulation of U-type microemulsion were investigated. Pseudo ternary phase diagrams were constructed to assess the influence of these factors using water titration method.

Preservation of traditional Chinese pork balls supplemented with essential oil microemulsion in a phase-change material package.

Background: In this study, we evaluated the combined effect of cinnamon essential oil (CEO) microemulsions, and a temperature buffering package using phase-change material (PCM) microcapsules on the physicochemical property, lipid oxidation, and bacterial load of traditional Chinese pork balls (shi zi tou) during temperature fluctuation storage for 9 days.

Results: Transmission electron microscope characterization revealed that n-tetradecane microcapsules possessed a core-shell spherical shape with a size ranging from 300 to 600 nm. The use of n-tetradecane microcapsule packaging was found to maintain cold storage temperature efficiently.

Failure of to Acquire Direct and Cross Tolerance after Habituation to Cinnamon Essential Oil.

Utilization of sublethal concentrations of cinnamon essential oil (CEO) for food preservation has been proposed. However, exposure to stressful, sublethal growth conditions may induce bacterial tolerance to homologous or heterologous stressing agents. Hence, the ability of CEO to stimulate bacterial stress response was evaluated in the current work.

The stability and controlled release of I-ascorbic acid encapsulated in poly (ethyl-2-cyanoacrylate) nanocapsules prepared by interfacial polymerization of water-in-oil microemulsions.

The L-ascorbic acid (AA) was encapsulated into biodegradable and biocompatible poly(ethyl-2-cyanoacrylate) (PECA) nanocapsules by interfacial polymerization of water-in-oil (W/O) microemulsions. The influences of surfactant concentration, pH value of the dispersed aqueous phase, and W/O ratio on nanocapsule size were discussed. The stability and in vitro release of encapsulated AA were also investigated.

On weak exponential expansiveness of evolution families in Banach spaces.

The aim of this paper is to give several characterizations for the property of weak exponential expansiveness for evolution families in Banach spaces. Variants for weak exponential expansiveness of some well-known results in stability theory (Datko (1973), Rolewicz (1986), Ichikawa (1984), and Megan et al. (2003)) are obtained.

4-Amino-1-(2-benzoyl-1-phenyl-eth-yl)-3-phenyl-1H-1,2,4-triazol-5(4H)-thione.

In the title compound, C(23)H(20)N(4)OS, the two phenyl rings of the diphenyl-propanone fragment form a dihedral angle of 86.8 (1)°, and the third phenyl ring attached to the triazole ring is twisted from the latter at 40.1 (1)°.