The book reviews the potential of natural hydrocolloids and active agents to develop sustainable edible packaging materials for food preservation. Natural hydrocolloids have been covered including their current and future sources, extraction methods, health effects (both positive and negative), and their ability to form different types of packaging such as film, casing, coating, mat, pad, etc. Similarly, natural active compounds have been evaluated carefully considering their sources, extraction methods, regulatory status, and compatibility with edible packaging. The book lays particular emphasis on recent developments in methods, strategies and technologies employed to enhance the performance of antimicrobial, antioxidant and bioactive packaging. The basic testing methods used to evaluate antimicrobial and antioxidant activity of edible packaging in model media and food have been discussed, and carefully selected example active edible packaging applications for different food categories have been provided with critical details such as the thin balance between effectiveness of packaging and sensory properties of food. The book helps in understanding necessary parameters in designing a natural active edible packaging that is applicable to a specific target category of food. Moreover, readers are primed, for the first time, on how to develop a high performance, but fully natural active edible food packaging.
This book is different from most similar books as it provides neither methodologies about classical active packaging based on chemicals and fossil polymeric films, nor is it a thorough collection of different food packaging applications. It is also not a book that concentrates on physicochemical characterization methods and engineering aspects of packaging. Instead, this is a book that provides systematic knowledge about key methods of evaluating natural resources, agro-industrial wastes and by products for development of edible packaging, and concentrates on concepts, strategies, technologies, and applications of active edible packaging based solely on natural components. It is designed to share both positive and negative experiences in an emerging field that is expected to play a central role in improving food safety and quality, human health and environmentally friendly practices.
- ISBN13 9780367350192
- Publish Date 3 November 2022
- Publish Status Forthcoming
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Imprint CRC Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 275
- Language English