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| Title |
Natural additives and agricultural wastes in biopolymer formulations for food packaging
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Frontiers in Chemistry, January 2014
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| DOI | 10.3389/fchem.2014.00006 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Arantzazu Valdés, Ana Cristina Mellinas, Marina Ramos, María Carmen Garrigós, Alfonso Jiménez |
| Abstract |
The main directions in food packaging research are targeted toward improvements in food quality and food safety. For this purpose, food packaging providing longer product shelf-life, as well as the monitoring of safety and quality based upon international standards, is desirable. New active packaging strategies represent a key area of development in new multifunctional materials where the use of natural additives and/or agricultural wastes is getting increasing interest. The development of new materials, and particularly innovative biopolymer formulations, can help to address these requirements and also with other packaging functions such as: food protection and preservation, marketing and smart communication to consumers. The use of biocomposites for active food packaging is one of the most studied approaches in the last years on materials in contact with food. Applications of these innovative biocomposites could help to provide new food packaging materials with improved mechanical, barrier, antioxidant, and antimicrobial properties. From the food industry standpoint, concerns such as the safety and risk associated with these new additives, migration properties and possible human ingestion and regulations need to be considered. The latest innovations in the use of these innovative formulations to obtain biocomposites are reported in this review. Legislative issues related to the use of natural additives and agricultural wastes in food packaging systems are also discussed. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Switzerland | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Scientists | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 314 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 312 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 49 | 16% |
| Researcher | 40 | 13% |
| Student > Master | 36 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 33 | 11% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 21 | 7% |
| Other | 55 | 18% |
| Unknown | 80 | 25% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 57 | 18% |
| Engineering | 41 | 13% |
| Chemistry | 30 | 10% |
| Materials Science | 20 | 6% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 17 | 5% |
| Other | 46 | 15% |
| Unknown | 103 | 33% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 26 February 2014.
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