Evaluation of Buriti (<i>Mauritia flexuosa</i> L.) Oil as an Additive for Carbohydrate-Based Biodegradable Films.

ABSTRACT: Recent studies have focused on the development of food packaging films based on biopolymers, with polysaccharides being at the forefront due to their abundant availability in food and agricultural by-products. Therefore, it was the aim of this work to prepare and characterize conjugated biopolymeric films using starch, galactomannans and buriti oil (BO), with the latter acting as a partial or integral replacement for glycerol as a plasticizer. The addition of BO to either the starch or the conjugated starch-galactomannan film formulations led to distinct interactions between the components and consequently to films with distinct properties. The addition of both BO and galactomannan to starch hindered retrogradation, characterized by a diminished degree of crystallinity in comparison to the

SUBMITTER: Freitas BLS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12733185 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature