Chemical Composition, Antioxidant and Antimicrobial Activities of <i>Thymus capitata</i> Essential Oil with Its Preservative Effect against <i>Listeria monocytogenes</i> Inoculated in Minced Beef Meat

<table>The antioxidant activities of <i>Thymus capitata</i> essential oil as determined by DPPH (a) and ABTS (b) free radical-scavenging activity. The absorbance values were converted to scavenging effects (%) and data plotted as the means of replicate scavenging effect (%) values. (Results are expressed as means ± standard deviation of three measurements.)</table>

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Figure 1: Chemical Composition, Antioxidant and Antimicrobial Activities of <i>Thymus capitata</i> Essential Oil with Its Preservative Effect against <i>Listeria monocytogenes</i> Inoculated in Minced Beef Meat 

Figure 1 | Chemical Composition, Antioxidant and Antimicrobial Activities of Thymus capitata Essential Oil with Its Preservative Effect against Listeria monocytogenes Inoculated in Minced Beef Meat 