A Review of Natural Protective Agents

Abstract

Natural protective agents sourced from diverse biological origins offer promising solutions for protection against environmental toxins. This review explores various natural protective agents such as antimicrobial agents, hepatoprotective agents and antioxidants. Plants, animals and microbial antimicrobial agents such as essential oils, lysozyme, glucose oxidase and bacteriocins; antioxidants like herb extracts and dairy products and hepatoprotective agents like Foeniculum vulgare, Solanum nigrum and Azadirachta indica are also discussed.