“…They are biosurfactants produced mainly by the nonpathogenic yeast Starmerella bombicola and are composed of sugar linked to a fatty acid chain (Cho et al, 2022). Sophorolipids present several advantages over chemical surfactants, such as high biodegradability, diverse biological properties and renewable characteristics (Pal et al, 2023), and exhibit robust antimicrobial activity, as described in several reports (Zhang et al, 2016a(Zhang et al, , 2016bGaur et al, 2019;Silveira et al, 2019;Hip olito et al, 2020;Filipe et al, 2022). In previous studies, our group showed the antimicrobial activity of sophorolipids against the foodborne pathogens Clostridium perfringens, Campylobacter jejuni, Listeria monocytogenes, Staphylococcus aureus and Salmonella spp.…”