Ensuring food security in developing countries is highly challenging due to low productivity
of the agriculture sector, degradation of natural resources, high post farming losses, less or …

Background Plant-based proteins as an alternative to synthetic polymers have attracted the
interest of the global packaging industry in the last decade due to their biodegradability …

New packaging materials are an emerging field in the food industry. Poor thermal,
mechanical, chemical, and physical properties of biopolymers, and also their inherent …

Biodegradable food packaging films (FPFs) assembled from sustainable biopolymeric
materials are of increasing interest to the food industry due to pollution and health risks …

Background Biodegradable packaging from natural biopolymers can be further enhanced
with antimicrobial and antioxidant agents to form active packaging. Scope and approach …

New food packaging materials provide an attractive option for the advancement of
nanomaterials. The poor thermal, mechanical, chemical, and physical properties of …

There are several physical and chemical methods for synthesizing nanomaterials, while the
most appropriate techniques involve using green chemistry and eco-friendly material …

Nanotechnology has proven as progressive technology that enables to contribute, develop
several effective and sustainable changes in food products. Incorporating nanomaterials like …

Conventionally used petrochemical-based plastics are poorly degradable and cause severe
environmental pollution. Alternatively, biopolymers (eg, polysaccharides, proteins, lipids …

Biopolymers are important due to their exceptional functional and barrier properties and also
their non-toxicity and eco-friendly nature for various food, biomedical, and pharmaceutical …