Impact of Nanoclays Addition on Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) Flour Film Properties.

ABSTRACT: Chickpea flour is an affordable natural blend of starch, proteins, and lipids, which can create films with suitable properties as an eco-friendly packaging material. Nanoclays' incorporation into natural biopolymers enhances the barrier properties of the resulting nanocomposites, so they could improve the properties of flour films. The objective of this work was to assess the influence of three types of nanoclays (halloysite, bentonite, and Cloisite 20A) at two concentrations on the characteristics of chickpea flour films. In general terms, when the lowest dose (5%) was added, no or very slight significant differences with the control were observed in most parameters, except for thermal stability and opacity, which increased, and solubility, which decreased. At the highest concentration (1

SUBMITTER: Cobos A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10778780 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature