Traditional food preservation techniques based on
thermal treatments can provide microbiological stability
of food, but they are not appropriate for fresh vegetables. To improve the microbiological stability of minimally
processed vegetables in today’s market, researchers are
looking for non-thermal treatments that do not affect the
physicochemical properties or nutritional value of these
products. A very popular way of preserving the quality of
minimally processed, fresh-cut vegetables is the use of chitosan films (11-13). The efficacy of chitosan films has been
demonstrated for different types of foods, but there is no
information on the effects chitosan and the natural compounds of essential oils on cabbage.