Summary

Natural Materials for Food Packaging Application

Analyze the future of biodegradable food packaging with this cutting-edge overview

Packaging plays an essential role in the production of food and its movement through the global supply chain. Food packaging has been a significant site of innovation recently, allowing consumers better access to natural and organic foods, extended shelf lives, and more. However, food packaging has become an increasingly serious environmental hazard, with the result that biodegradable food packaging has become a vital and growing area of research.

Natural Materials for Food Packaging Application provides a thorough and detailed introduction to natural packaging and its applications in food transportation. Treating both recent innovations and prospective future developments, it provides readers with extensive insights into the current state of research in this field. The result is a volume designed to meet the aspirational needs of a sustainable food industry.

Natural Materials for Food Packaging Application readers will also find:

Detailed treatment of biodegradable packaging materials including thermo-plastic starch, polybutylene succinate, and more
Discussion of subjects including chitosan-based food packaging films, clay-based packaging films, and more
An authorial team with vast expertise in the field of biological polymer production

Natural Materials for Food Packaging Applications is a useful reference for chemists, materials scientists, and food scientists, as well as for any industry professionals working in food distribution and the food supply chain.

Author Biography

Jyotishkumar Parameswaranpillai, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Science at Alliance University, Karnataka, India. He has postdoctoral experience in laboratories on multiple continents, and has published enormously widely on biological polymer research subjects.

Aswathy Jayakumar, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Food and Nutrition at Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea. She received the 2019 Best Paper Award at the Kerala Science Congress, and her research concerns the finctional biology of endophytic microorganisms.

E. K. Radhakrishnan, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the School of Biosciences and Joint Director of the Inter-University Centre for Organic Farming and Sustainable Agriculture, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, India. He has published extensively on plant microbe interactions, polymer-based nanocomposites for food packaging, and related subjects.

Suchart Siengchin, PhD, is a Lecturer and Researcher in the Thai-German Graduate School of Engineering, King Mongkut’s University of Technology, North Bangkok, Thailand (KMUTNB). He is a three-time winner of the Outstanding Researcher Award at KMUTNB, and has published and presented extensive research on engineering and materials science subjects.

Sabarish Radoor, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Research at King Mongkut’s University of Technology, North Bangkok, Thailand (KMUTNB). He has published roughly 25 research papers.

Chapter 1 Introduction to natural materials for food packaging
Chapter 2 Curcumin based food packaging material
Chapter 3 Plant extract-based food packaging films
Chapter 4 Hydrogel based food packaging films
Chapter 5 Thermoplastic starch-based food packaging films
Chapter 6 Natural fiber based food packaging films
Chapter 7 Natural clay-based food packaging films
Chapter 8 Polysaccharide (starch/cellulose) based food packaging films
Chapter 9 Chitosan based food packaging films
Chapter 10 Chitin based food packaging films
Chapter 11 Agrowaste residue (rice straw, shrimp waste) based food packaging films
Chapter 12 Natural material based edible films
Chapter 13 Essential oil-based packaging films
Chapter 14 Antimicrobial mechanisms and efficiency exhibited by natural materials in food packaging films
Chapter 15 Effect of natural materials on thermal properties of packaging films
Chapter 16 Influence of natural materials on water barrier properties of packaging films
Chapter 17 Influence of natural materials on thickness and mechanical behaviour of packaging films
Chapter 18 Effects of natural materials on food preservation and storage
Chapter 19 Natural material-based films as a function of pH indication/ pH indicating nanocomposite-based films
Chapter 20 Marketing, environmental and future perspectives of natural materials in packaging

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