Impact of Moderate Heat, Carvacrol, and Thymol Treatments on the Viability, Injury, and Stress Response of Listeria monocytogenes

Table 1

values (min) of Listeria monocytogenes CECT 4031 () obtained in TSBYE at 55°C and/or in presence of 0.3 mM thymol and/or 0.3 mM carvacrol and recovered in TSAYE or TSAYE-SC.

	Recovery in TSAYE			Recovery in TSAYE-SC
	value (min)	RMSE		value (min)	RMSE
Thymol	15.58	0.226	0.893	11.02	0.259	0.901
Carvacrol	12.79	0.249	0.898	11.07	0.252	0.904
Thymol + carvacrol	8.74	0.334	0.878	3.76	0.393	0.907
55°C	0.80	0.655	0.926	0.43	0.944	0.911
55°C + thymol	0.25	0.276	0.993	0.16	0.447	0.988
55°C + carvacrol	0.25	0.319	0.990	0.14	0.419	0.989
55°C + thymol + carvacrol	0.18	0.332	0.992	0.10	0.813	0.966