Recent advances in guar gum-based films or coatings: Diverse property enhancement strategies and applications in foods

H Jiang, W Zhang, L Chen, J Liu, J Cao, W Jiang - Food Hydrocolloids, 2023 - Elsevier
Plastics sourced from petrochemicals are most commonly and widely used for food
packaging films. However, the extensive employment of petrochemical plastics unavoidably …

Polysaccharides: Sources, characteristics, properties, and their application in biodegradable films

E Díaz-Montes - Polysaccharides, 2022 - mdpi.com
Biodegradable films emerge as alternative biomaterials to conventional packaging from
fossil sources, which, in addition to offering protection and increasing the shelf life of food …

Shellac: from isolation to modification and its untapped potential in the packaging application

A Ahuja, VK Rastogi - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Recently, terms such as sustainable, bio-based, biodegradable, non-toxic, or environment-
benign are being found in the literature, suggesting an increase in green materials for …

Effect of waste Dunaliella tertiolecta biomass ethanolic extract and turmeric essential oil on properties of guar gum-based active films

K Mondal, SK Bhattacharjee, VV Goud, V Katiyar - Food Hydrocolloids, 2024 - Elsevier
The presented work focuses on the development of guar gum-based active films infused
with two bio-fillers such as crude algae ethanolic extract (CAEE) and turmeric essential oil …

Preparation and application of edible agar-based composite films modified by cellulose nanocrystals

J Zhao, T Liu, K Xia, X Liu, X Zhang - Food Packaging and Shelf Life, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper, agar/gelatin (AG/GE) composite film modified by cellulose nanocrystals (CNC),
agar/gellan gum (AG/GG) and agar/κ-carrageenan (AG/KC) composite films modified by …

Properties of galactomannans and their textile-related applications—A concise review

İ Özen, Mİ Bahtiyari, A Haji, S ul Islam… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Galactomannans are reserve carbohydrates in legume plants and are primarily extracted
from their seeds. They contain galactose side chains throughout the mannose backbone …

Active Films Based on Faba Bean (Vicia faba L.) Flour Incorporated with Sumac (Rhus coriaria): Assessment of Antioxidant and Antimicrobial Performances of …

AA Emir, E Yildiz, Y Aydogdu, G Sumnu - Food and Bioprocess …, 2023 - Springer
Sumac (Rhus coriaria) cultivated mainly in the Mediterranean region, Eastern and Western
North America, South Africa, and Asia is rich in phenolic compounds, especially tannins …

Replacement of polyethylene oxide by peach gum to produce an active film using Litsea cubeba essential oil and its application in beef

AA Mahdi, QA Al-Maqtari, W Al-Ansi, W Hu… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
This study evaluated the effects of adding various concentrations (0%, 1%, 2%, and 3%) of
peach gum (PG) to films made from polyethylene oxide (PEO) combined with Litsea cubeba …

Recent updates on guar gum derivatives in colon specific drug delivery

S Manna, S Karmakar, O Sen, P Sinha, S Jana… - Carbohydrate …, 2024 - Elsevier
Colon specific delivery of therapeutics have gained much attention of pharmaceutical
researchers in the recent past. Colonic specific targeting of drugs is used not only for …

Development and application of intelligent packaging films based on guar gum, polyvinyl alcohol and hyacinth bean (Lablab purpureus (L.) sweet) anthocyanins

X Huang, F Xu, D Yun, C Li, J Kan, J Liu - International Journal of Biological …, 2023 - Elsevier
The pH-response color-changeable films were prepared by adding different contents (1%,
2% and 3%) of hyacinth bean anthocyanins (HBA) into guar gum/polyvinyl alcohol blend …