date:Mar 19, 2013
Treatment of tomatoes with the essential oils of three herbs reduces salmonella contamination, and one -- oregano -- even enhances quality, according to a recent study.
The Journal of Food Science published a study by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Chinas Tianjin University of Science and Technology in March. An abstract is online.
Previous papers on gaseous essential oils dealt mostly only with reduction of human pathogens, not about effects on quality, said Xuetong Fan, research food