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Inhibiting foodborne pathogens Vibrio parahaemolyticus and Listeria monocytogenes using extracts from traditional medicine: Chinese gallnut, pomegranate peel, Baikal skullcap root and forsythia fruit

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dc.contributor Food Science and Technology
dc.contributor School of Plant and Environmental Sciences
dc.creator Wu, Jian
dc.creator Goodrich, Katheryn M.
dc.creator Eifert, Joseph D.
dc.creator Jahncke, Michael L.
dc.creator O'Keefe, Sean F.
dc.creator Welbaum, Gregory E.
dc.creator Neilson, Andrew P.
dc.date 2019-08-23T19:07:08Z
dc.date 2019-08-23T19:07:08Z
dc.date 2018-06-21
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-01T18:51:09Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-01T18:51:09Z
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10919/93248
dc.identifier https://doi.org/10.1515/opag-2018-0017
dc.identifier 3
dc.identifier 1
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/281480
dc.description Foodborne illnesses have been a heavy burden in the United States and globally. Many medicinal herbs have been cultivated in the US and many of which contain antimicrobial compounds with the potential to be used for food preservation. Methanol/water extracts of pomegranate peel (“PP”, Punica Granatum L.), Chinese gallnut (“CG”, Galla chinensis), Forsythia fruit (“FF”, Forsythia suspensa) and Baikal skullcap root (“BS”, Scutellaria baicalensis) were tested for antimicrobial activity using the agar diffusion assay on tryptic soy agar (TSA) and microdilution assay in tryptic soy broth (TSB). CG and PP extracts showed good to excellent inhibitory effect against Vibrio parahaemolyticus and Listeria monocytogenes in both assays, with a minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) range from 0.04 to 5 mg/mL. BS had moderate inhibitory effects against V. parahaemolyticus with an MIC of 5 mg/mL in TSB, and against L. monocytogenes with an MIC of 20 mg/mL on TSA. CG was analyzed using LC-MS and fractionated using HPLC. The major components were identified as gallic acid, digallic acid, methyl gallate, and gallotannins (oligo-galloyl-D-glucose, nGG, n = 1~10). Six fractions (I - VI) were collected and their antibacterial activities were tested against L. monocytogenes, and V. parahaemolyticus both on TSA and in TSB. On TSA, fraction III, IV and V inhibited V. parahaemolyticus but no fraction inhibited L. monocytogenes. In TSB, all fractions inhibited V. parahaemolyticus and fractions II - V inhibited L. monocytogenes. Future studies are needed to investigate the effects of medicinal plants on food products.
dc.description Virginia Seafood Agricultural Research and Extension Center
dc.description Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station
dc.description Hatch Program of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture
dc.description Published version
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dc.language en
dc.publisher De Gruyter
dc.rights Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/
dc.subject Chinese gallnut
dc.subject pomegranate peel
dc.subject Vibrio
dc.subject Listeria. Gallotannins
dc.subject LC-MS
dc.title Inhibiting foodborne pathogens Vibrio parahaemolyticus and Listeria monocytogenes using extracts from traditional medicine: Chinese gallnut, pomegranate peel, Baikal skullcap root and forsythia fruit
dc.title Open Agriculture
dc.type Article - Refereed
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