“…In contrast, when the EEP was incorporated into the cooked ham formulation recipe, the microbial behavior was quite different than in vitro conditions. Propolis has been incorporated into meat products such as sausages [46], beef patties, salami [47], raw meat [39,48], and many dairy products such as ice cream, milk, and cheese [4,[49][50][51]. However, when referring to foods subjected to heat treatment, current works only considered plant powder extracts as an alternative [14,39,43,52].…”