“…Tannic acid (TA), a natural plant polyphenol, has exhibited lots of biological activities such as antimutagenic, anticarcinogenic, antimicrobial, antioxidant and antibacterial activities (Daglia, ; Zhang et al ., ). From a structural point of view, the possession of abundant terminal hydroxyl groups facilitates interactions of TA with a variety of materials such as polysaccharides (Liang et al ., ), proteins (Taylor et al ., ; Liang, Zhou, Li et al ., ) and synthetic polymers (Fei Liu et al ., ; Shin et al ., ) via multiple mechanisms (Costa et al ., ; Rahim et al ., ; Liang, Zhou, Li et al ., ).…”