“…Other studies reported antimicrobial activity of films containing different essential oils such as those obtained from bergamot (Sánchez‐González, Cháfer, Chiralt, & González‐Martínez, ; Sánchez‐González, González‐Martínez, Chiralt, & Cháfer, ; Sánchez‐González, Vargas, González‐Martínez, Chiralt, & Cháfer, ), lemon or sweet and bitter orange (Iturriaga, Olabarrieta, & de Marañón, ). Osorio‐Esquivel, Álvarez, Dorantes‐Álvarez, and Giusti () and de Jesus Cenobio‐Galindo et al () reported the presence of active compounds such as protocatechuic, 4‐hydroxybenzoic, caffeine, vanillic and sirinic acids, rutin, quercetin, and betacyanins in the xoconostle extract. In this research, we examined the effect of the addition of nanoemulsions formulated with xoconostle cactus pear extract containing these active compounds on the antioxidant, antibacterial, and mechanical properties of chayotextle tuber starch films.…”