## 3 Results and Discussion
### Biological Activity of Coatings
\begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{c c c c c c} \hline \hline \multirow{2}{*}{**Coating**} & \multicolumn{5}{c}{**Inhibition Zone (mm) \({}^{\ast}\)**} \\ \cline{2-6}  & _C. albicans_ & _S. aureus_ & _E. coli_ & _B. cereus_ & _L. monocytogenes_ \\ \hline C-CL-2.5 & NI & NI & NI & NI & NI \\ C-CL-5 & NI & NI & NI & 8.02 \(\pm\) 0.06 \({}^{\text{a}}\) & NI \\ C-CL-10 & 8.37 \(\pm\) 0.03 & NI & 9.36 \(\pm\) 0.11 & 8.74 \(\pm\) 0.06 \({}^{\text{b}}\) & NI \\ \hline C-EU-2.5 & NI & NI & NI & 8.02 \(\pm\) 0.01 \({}^{\text{a}}\) & NI \\ C-EU-5 & NI & NI & 8.73 \(\pm\) 0.05 \({}^{\text{a}}\) & 8.50 \(\pm\) 0.02 \({}^{\text{b}}\) & NI \\ C-EU-10 & 10.79 \(\pm\) 0.02 & NI & 9.91 \(\pm\) 0.04 \({}^{\text{b}}\) & 10.45 \(\pm\) 0.05 \({}^{\text{c}}\) & NI \\ \hline C-CI-2.5 & 10.85 \(\pm\) 0.04 \({}^{\text{a}}\) & NI & NI & 7.59 \(\pm\) 0.02 \({}^{\text{a}}\) & NI \\ C-CI-5 & 13.60 \(\pm\) 0.02 \({}^{\text{b}}\) & NI & 13.23 \(\pm\) 0.04 \({}^{\text{a}}\) & 17.10 \(\pm\) 0.02 \({}^{\text{b}}\) & 7.39 \(\pm\) 0.04 \({}^{\text{a}}\) \\ C-CI-10 & 15.49 \(\pm\) 0.02 \({}^{\text{c}}\) & 10.81 \(\pm\) 0.01 & 18.70 \(\pm\) 0.01 \({}^{\text{b}}\) & 18.34 \(\pm\) 0.03 \({}^{\text{c}}\) & 11.16 \(\pm\) 0.02 \({}^{\text{b}}\) \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}  
* NI = No inhibition; \({}^{\text{a}}\)\(<\): the different letters within the column for coating containing same essential oil show that the results are significantly different (p \(<\) 0.05; Duncan test).  
\end{table} 
Table 6: Inhibition zones of coated paper samples against Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria by disk diffusion method. \begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{c c c c c} \hline \hline \multirow{2}{*}{**Coating**} & **Amount of Coating** & **Radical Scavenging on** & **Amount of Coating** & **Radical Scavenging on** \\  & **(mg/cm\({}^{2}\))** & **Day 1 (\%)** & **(mg/cm\({}^{2}\))** & **Day 28 (\%)** \\ \hline C-CL-2.5 & 3.83 \(\pm\) 0.5 & 76 \(\pm\) 1.9 \({}^{\text{a}}\) & 2.80 \(\pm\) 0.2 & 45.5 \(\pm\) 0.8 \({}^{\text{a}}\) \\ C-CL-5 & 4.28 \(\pm\) 1.1 & 90 \(\pm\) 0.1 \({}^{\text{c}}\) & 3.05 \(\pm\) 0.2 & 74.4 \(\pm\) 1.7 \({}^{\text{b}}\) \\ C-CL-10 & 4.23 \(\pm\) 0.7 & 92 \(\pm\) 0.3 \({}^{\text{c}}\) & 3.10 \(\pm\) 0.2 & 83.2 \(\pm\) 0.9 \({}^{\text{c}}\) \\ \hline C-EU-2.5 & 4.43 \(\pm\) 0.7 & 87 \(\pm\) 0.4 \({}^{\text{a}}\) & 2.95 \(\pm\) 0.1 & 60.3 \(\pm\) 1.5 \({}^{\text{a}}\) \\ C-EU-5 & 4.45 \(\pm\) 0.3 & 91 \(\pm\) 0.4 \({}^{\text{c}}\) & 3.00 \(\pm\) 0.1 & 78.2 \(\pm\) 1.4 \({}^{\text{c}}\) \\ C-EU-10 & 4.28 \(\pm\) 0.3 & 91 \(\pm\) 0.5 \({}^{\text{c}}\) & 2.75 \(\pm\) 0.1 & 79.0 \(\pm\) 0.5 \({}^{\text{c}}\) \\ \hline C-CI-2.5 & 3.65 \(\pm\) 0.1 & 4 \(\pm\) 0.5 \({}^{\text{a}}\) & 3.05 \(\pm\) 0.0 & 0.30 \(\pm\) 0.2 \({}^{\text{a}}\) \\ C-CI-5 & 4.13 \(\pm\) 0.5 & 5 \(\pm\) 2.2 \({}^{\text{a}}\) & 2.70 \(\pm\) 0.1 & 2.50 \(\pm\) 1.4 \({}^{\text{a}}\)\({}^{\text{b}}\) \\ C-CI-10 & 3.48 \(\pm\) 0.2 & 9 \(\pm\) 3.0 \({}^{\text{b}}\) & 2.75 \(\pm\) 0.3 & 5.10 \(\pm\) 0.2 \({}^{\text{c}}\) \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}  
* \({}^{\text{a}}\)\(<\): the different letters within the column for the coating containing the same essential oil show that the results are significantly different (p \(<\) 0.05; Duncan test).  
\end{table} 
Table 5: The antioxidant activity of the coatings on Day 1 and Day 28.