Polysaccharides, protein and lipid-based natural edible films in food packaging: A review

SAA Mohamed, M El-Sakhawy, MAM El-Sakhawy - Carbohydrate polymers, 2020 - Elsevier
Polysaccharides, such as pectin, starch, alginate, carrageenan, and xanthan gum, have
been used as biopolymer materials to create coatings and edible films to reduce traditional …

Shellac as a multifunctional biopolymer: A review on properties, applications and future potential

N Thombare, S Kumar, U Kumari, P Sakare… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Shellac is a physically refined form of lac resin, a natural biopolymer of animal origin
obtained from tiny insects feeding on the sap of specific host trees. Shellac, in its basic form …

Edible coating as postharvest management strategy for shelf‐life extension of fresh tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.): An overview

A Yadav, N Kumar, A Upadhyay, S Sethi… - Journal of Food …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Tomato is considered as one of the most grown horticultural crops having a short shelf‐life
due to its climacteric nature of ripening, susceptibility to postharvest microbial decay, and …

Advances in formulation, functionality, and application of edible coatings on fresh produce and fresh-cut products: A review

N Firdous, F Moradinezhad, F Farooq, M Dorostkar - Food chemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
With the increasing population of the world food demand is also increasing but
unfortunately, many countries in the world are lacking suitable and economical postharvest …

Edible electronics: The vision and the challenge

AS Sharova, F Melloni, G Lanzani… - Advanced Materials …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Many forward‐looking biomedical, pharmaceutical, and food industry technologies have
limited applications owing to the lack of crucial factors: balance of safety and reliability, cost …

Aloe Genus Plants: From Farm to Food Applications and Phytopharmacotherapy

B Salehi, S Albayrak, H Antolak, D Kręgiel… - International journal of …, 2018 - mdpi.com
Aloe genus plants, distributed in Old World, are widely known and have been used for
centuries as topical and oral therapeutic agents due to their health, beauty, medicinal, and …

Effect of Aloe vera gel coating enriched with Fagonia indica plant extract on physicochemical and antioxidant activity of sapodilla fruit during postharvest storage

G Khaliq, M Ramzan, AH Baloch - Food chemistry, 2019 - Elsevier
The effect of Aloe vera (AV) gel (at 50% or 100%) alone or enriched with Fagonia indica (FI)
plant extract at 1% on physiological and biochemical responses of sapodilla fruit were …

Chitosan–aloe vera gel coating delays postharvest decay of mango fruit

S Shah, MS Hashmi - Horticulture, Environment, and Biotechnology, 2020 - Springer
In this study, the impact of chitosan in combination with aloe vera gel was investigated on
the storage life of mango fruits. Mango samples were coated with 1% chitosan (CTS) and …

Shellac: A promising natural polymer in the food industry

Y Yuan, N He, Q Xue, Q Guo, L Dong… - Trends in Food Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background The promising applications of polymers have recently attracted increasing
interest in the food industry, prompting the development and utilization of novel polymers …

Biomaterials technology for agrofood resilience

H Sun, Y Cao, D Kim, B Marelli - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This review article highlights recent advances in designing biomaterials to be interfaced with
food and plants, with the goal of enhancing the resilience of the AgroFood infrastructure by …