**7.** *Cuminum cyminum* **is used as a preservative**

*C. cyminum* is a spice that has long been used as an antiseptic, and it shows powerful antibacterial action in humans against a variety of bacteria, and pathogenic and nonpathogenic fungi [38]. The basic chemical components of cumin essential oil are cuminaldehyde, b-pinene, p-cymene, and g-terpinene [39, 40]. Cuminaldehyde, the main constituent of cumin essential oil, possesses antimicrobial properties [39]. Cumin alcoholic extract has been shown to inhibit *Bacillus subtilis*, *E. coli*, and *Saccharomyces cerevisiae*, as well as have outstanding antimicrobial activity against *Agrobacterium tumefaciens*, *Pseudomonas oleovorans*, *B. subtilis*, *S. cerevisiae*, *Trichophyton rubrum*, and *Bacillus licheniformis* [41]. When the aldehyde fraction of cumin oil containing the antibacterial chemical component cuminaldehyde was examined, it inhibited *Aspergillus flavus* and *Aspergillus niger* by more than 90% [42, 43].
