The objective of this investigation was to
study the effect of thyme and laurel essential oil
treatments on the quality of bluefish during storage
in ice for 13 days. The quality of bluefish during
storage time was evaluated by sensory, chemical,
physical, physicochemical and microbiological analysis.
According to the sensory evaluation results,
shelf life of control and treated bluefish samples
stored in ice were 9 and 11 days, respectively. Total
volatile base nitrogen and trimethylamine values
gave acceptable results for up to 9 days for the control
groups samples and 13 days for treated groups.
Free fatty acid, peroxide and thiobarbituric acid values
for treated samples were lower than the control.
Microbial growth during storage in ice for control
samples was higher than treated samples. The results
obtained from this study showed that the shelf life of
stored bluefish in ice has extended by 3–4 days
compare to the control samples.