Biobased materials for active food packaging: A review

OM Atta, S Manan, A Shahzad, M Ul-Islam, MW Ullah… - Food …, 2022 - Elsevier
A large portion of food is lost due to the damage caused by different environmental factors
such as moisture, oxidation, irradiation, microbial contamination, and others. Thus, food …

Major factors affecting the characteristics of starch based biopolymer films

S Agarwal - European Polymer Journal, 2021 - Elsevier
Starch is the most important widely spread polysaccharide used for the synthesis of
biopolymer film. Renewable source, abundance, cost effectiveness and excellent film …

Fortification of cassava starch edible films with Litsea cubeba essential oil for chicken meat preservation

C Shi, L Jia, H Tao, W Hu, C Li, T Aziz… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Chicken meat is highly perishable and mainly preserved by plastic packaging materials,
whereas their widely used have increased environmental burden and threatened human …

Advances in functional biopolymer-based nanocomposites for active food packaging applications

N Basavegowda, KH Baek - Polymers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Polymeric nanocomposites have received significant attention in both scientific and
industrial research in recent years. The demand for new methods of food preservation to …

Intelligent colorimetric pH sensoring packaging films based on sugarcane wax/agar integrated with butterfly pea flower extract for optical tracking of shrimp freshness

SBH Hashim, HE Tahir, L Liu, J Zhang, X Zhai… - Food Chemistry, 2022 - Elsevier
A novel pH colorimetric film was prepared from various sugarcane wax (SW) concentrations
(1, 1.5 and 2% w/v) on agar matrix (Agr) combined with butterfly pea flower (BF) extract for …

Beeswax: A review on the recent progress in the development of superhydrophobic films/coatings and their applications in fruits preservation

SF Hosseini, Z Mousavi, DJ McClements - Food Chemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
Recently, the design and fabrication of bio-inspired superhydrophobic materials using
natural lipid additives such as beeswax (BW) have aroused great attention in food …

[HTML][HTML] Trends in starch-based edible films and coatings enriched with tropical fruits extracts: A review

MG Kupervaser, MV Traffano-Schiffo… - Food Hydrocolloids for …, 2023 - Elsevier
Petroleum-based food packaging materials are non-degradable and considerably affect the
environment. In this context, edible films and coatings for food preservation represent a …

Smart films of carbohydrate-based/sunflower wax/purple Chinese cabbage anthocyanins: A biomarker of chicken freshness

SBH Hashim, HE Tahir, L Lui, J Zhang, X Zhai… - Food Chemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
Innovative pH-colorimetric sensor film was fabricated from agar and methylcellulose matrix
(AM) with various concentrations of sunflower wax (SFW)(6%, 9%, 12%, and 15% w/w) …

Biodegradable films from dragon fruit (Hylocereus polyrhizus) peel pectin and potato starches crosslinked with glutaraldehyde

NNT Tien, HT Nguyen, NL Le, TT Khoi… - Food Packaging and Shelf …, 2023 - Elsevier
This research aimed to fabricate and characterize the biodegradable films from pectin
extracted from dragon fruit peel (Hylocereus polyrhizus) incorporated with native, heat …

Edible films based on tapioca starch and WPC or gelatine plasticized with glycerol: Potential food applications based on their mechanical and heat-sealing properties

YS Izzi, LN Gerschenson, RJ Jagus… - Food and Bioprocess …, 2023 - Springer
For the last decades, the food industry has been searching for cleaner alternatives to
petroleum-derived plastics to ensure food safety, such as edible films. Although tapioca …