showed that lemongrass
EO has antimicrobial activity against Gram positive S. aureus and
L. monocytogenes but did not show any effect on the Gram negative
S. Typhimurium and E. coli. It can be observed that themain antimicrobial
activity of lemongrass EO comes from its main component citral since
most of the CMI values were almost identical for the two (Table 2).