Effect of Ionizing Radiation on the Microbiological Safety and Phytochemical Properties of Cooked Malva sylvestris L.

Table 4

Antimicrobial activities of untreated and cooked irradiated Mallow under 2 and 4 kGy dose. The zone inhibition growth (ZIG) was measured in triplicate (n=3), SD= standard deviation.

	Irradiation dose (kGy)
Strains	0	2	4
	ZIG (mm)
Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 6538 G(+)	7±2	8±3	8±1
Salmonella typhimurium ATCC 14028 G(-)	11.5±1	10±2	10±3
Enterococcus faecium ATCC 19434 G(+)	12±2.5	11±3	9.5±4
Streptococus B G(+)ATCC 13813	7±2	8±1.5	7±2
Escherichia coli G(-) ATCC 8739	7±0.5	7±1	7±2

Values followed by the same letter along the row are not significantly different (P<0.05).