“…Many plant phenolics [e.g., gallic and ferulic acid ( Borges et al, 2012 ), vanillic, caffeic, cinnamic and ferulic acid ( Ugurlu et al, 2016 ), tannic acid ( Dong et al, 2018 ), morin ( Sivaranjani et al, 2016 ), myricetin ( Slobodníková et al, 2016 ), 4-methylcatechol, 4-tert-butylcatechol, and pyrogallol ( Baptista et al, 2019 ), quercetin ( Vazquez-Armenta et al, 2020 )] and phenolic-rich plant extracts [e.g., garlic extracts ( Vadekeetil et al, 2015 ), Moringa oleifera extract ( Onsare and Arora, 2015 ), Brassicaceae (radish, radish sprout, red cabbage, kale) extracts ( Hu et al, 2019 ), Capsicum peppers extracts ( Castillo Rivera et al, 2019 ), phenolic-enriched extracts produced by enzyme-assisted extraction from oven-dried and lyophilized black grape, apple and yellow pitahaya ( Zambrano et al, 2019 ), tea and turmeric extracts ( Tamfu et al, 2020 ), anthocyanin-rich aqueous extract from purple highland barley bran ( Zhang et al, 2020a ), avocado peel extract fractions ( Trujillo-Mayol et al, 2021 )] have been reported to inhibit formation or to eradicate biofilms with undesirable food spoiling or foodborne pathogenic microorganisms.…”