The Future Packaging of the Food Industry: The Development and Characterization of Innovative Biobased Materials with Essential Oils Added.

ABSTRACT: The need to replace conventional, usually single-use, packaging materials, so important for the future of resources and of the environment, has propelled research towards the development of packaging-based on biopolymers, fully biodegradable and even edible. The current study furthers the research on development of such films and tests the modification of the properties of the previously developed biopolymeric material, by adding 10, respectively 20% w/v essential oils of lemon, grapefruit, orange, cinnamon, clove, mint, ginger, eucalypt, and chamomile. Films with a thickness between 53 and 102 µm were obtained, with a roughness ranging between 147 and 366 nm. Most films had a water activity index significantly below what is required for microorganism growth, as low as 0.27,

SUBMITTER: Puscaselu RG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9407569 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature