TY - JOUR
T1 - Functionality and applicability of starch‐based films
T2 - An eco‐friendly approach
AU - Bangar, Sneh Punia
AU - Purewal, Sukhvinder Singh
AU - Trif, Monica
AU - Maqsood, Sajid
AU - Kumar, Manoj
AU - Manjunatha, Vishal
AU - Rusu, Alexandru Vasile
N1 - Funding Information:
The APC was funded, and this work was supported by a grant from the Romanian National Authority for Scientific Research and Innovation, CNCS—UEFISCDI, project number PN‐III‐P2‐2.1‐PED‐2019‐1723 within PNCDI III.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
PY - 2021/9
Y1 - 2021/9
N2 - The accumulation of high amounts of petro‐based plastics is a growing environmental devastation issue, leading to the urgent need to innovate eco‐safe packaging materials at an equivalent cost to save the environment. Among different substitutes, starch‐based types and their blends with biopolymers are considered an innovative and smart material alternative for pet-rol‐based polymers because of their abundance, low cost, biodegradability, high biocompatibility, and better‐quality film‐forming and improved mechanical characteristics. Furthermore, starch is a valuable, sustainable food packaging material. The rising and growing importance of designing starch‐based films from various sources for sustainable food packaging purposes is ongoing re-search. Research on “starch food packaging” is still at the beginning, based on the few studies published in the last decade in Web of Science. Additionally, the functionality of starch‐based biodegradable substances is technically a challenge. It can be improved by starch modification, blending starch with other biopolymers or additives, and using novel preparation techniques. Starch‐based films have been applied to packaging various foods, such as fruits and vegetables, bakery goods, and meat, indicating good prospects for commercial utilization. The current review will give a critical snapshot of starch‐based films’ properties and potential applicability in the sustainable smart (active and intelligent) new packaging concepts and discuss new challenges and opportunities for starch bio composites.
AB - The accumulation of high amounts of petro‐based plastics is a growing environmental devastation issue, leading to the urgent need to innovate eco‐safe packaging materials at an equivalent cost to save the environment. Among different substitutes, starch‐based types and their blends with biopolymers are considered an innovative and smart material alternative for pet-rol‐based polymers because of their abundance, low cost, biodegradability, high biocompatibility, and better‐quality film‐forming and improved mechanical characteristics. Furthermore, starch is a valuable, sustainable food packaging material. The rising and growing importance of designing starch‐based films from various sources for sustainable food packaging purposes is ongoing re-search. Research on “starch food packaging” is still at the beginning, based on the few studies published in the last decade in Web of Science. Additionally, the functionality of starch‐based biodegradable substances is technically a challenge. It can be improved by starch modification, blending starch with other biopolymers or additives, and using novel preparation techniques. Starch‐based films have been applied to packaging various foods, such as fruits and vegetables, bakery goods, and meat, indicating good prospects for commercial utilization. The current review will give a critical snapshot of starch‐based films’ properties and potential applicability in the sustainable smart (active and intelligent) new packaging concepts and discuss new challenges and opportunities for starch bio composites.
KW - Applications
KW - Barrier
KW - Films
KW - Mechanical
KW - Properties
KW - Starch
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U2 - 10.3390/foods10092181
DO - 10.3390/foods10092181
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85115010260
SN - 2304-8158
VL - 10
JO - Foods
JF - Foods
IS - 9
M1 - 2181
ER -