I reviewed this article carefully. I liked the work since it looks applicable for the bananas. However, I got some questions and concerns about some methods used on bananas. The use of essential oils in fruit coatings need to be supported by sensory analysis. No one can expect the magnitude of undesired changes in pleasent banana flavour by treatment with thymol that has a sharp taste and smell. Authors must support their work with a simple sensory panel. Moreover, they must answer the following questions.

1. P6, Section 2.4.2. Did you mean emulsion stability test? If yes, please correct test title.
2. Sec 2.4.3., self-supporting film?? Did you mean self-standing film ? Please correct.
3. P7, What is the exact film size? Please clarify. film length: 5mm???? I think this is width? what is film length?
4. Give detaills of WVP test briefly. RH gradient??, Payne cup details? Calculation details?
5. P7, L46, 3 different dilutions?? What did you mean? unclear. Did you mean you diluted emulsion after HPH?? This is really an inapplicable process.
6. P7, L53, are these final conc. of thymol in coating after dilution?unclear.
7. Seciton 2.5, clarify meaning of %, w/v or w/w?
8. Clarify the banana tensile test. I think this must be named fruit penetration test. Did you mean spherical probe? Please correct.
9. P8, Section 2.7. Give more detaills of antifungal test. This is the most important test in this work. It must be discussed with minimum detials.
10. Table 2, max force??? Did you mean tensile strength? Please give Young's modulus values and comment what happened in film stiffness by HPH.
11. Fig 3A, conc of emulsions. w/w or w/v??
12. Figures 3,4, improve figure quality. x and y axis cannot be read.

The authors performed most of my comments with the exception of a simple sensory test. Authors specified in their reviewer response that they performed a simple sensory test to determine the disappearance of thymol odor after coating. Authors must include their comment to revised article if this is a scientific finding. We also performed many coating preliminaries with bananas and know that this fruit is very sensitive to foreign odors. I think that the readers of this article will be interested to hear that the thymol odor disappeared within 2 days. I think this article is the true place to discuss this issue.