Packaging and Safety about Fresh Fruit and Vegetable: How to Safely Extend Shelf Life and Avoid Waste?
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Packaging and Preservation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 January 2022) | Viewed by 365
Special Issue Editors
Interests: food packaging design; active packaging; shelf life; modified atmosphere packaging; biopolymer coating and film
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Interests: hygiene and food safety; food packaging and safety, food packaging as a preservation system; HACCP; food technology; food composition
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Preserving the quality of food through barrier materials, packaging in modified atmospheres and active and intelligent packaging systems to increase the useful life of the product and minimize food waste is a challenge that we must face in the coming years.
The hermetic and intelligent containers allow to guarantee a better quality, increase the useful life of the food and minimize food waste. In addition, these systems allow the food to be kept for a longer time by minimizing that the spoilage agents can directly affect the product.
The development of active packaging to extend the shelf life (such as biocides, antioxidants, absorbers of oxygen, moisture, ethylene ...) allow to eliminate the gases that favor the ripening of fresh foods such as fruits, vegetables, meat and fish and thus extend the useful life. Undoubtedly, food packaging by protecting food from environmental factors such as heat, light, humidity, oxygen, pressure, false odors, microorganisms, insects, dirt has a lot to contribute to avoid food waste.
Prof. Dr. Elena Torrieri
Prof. Dr. Marina Villalón-Mir
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- food packaging
- protecting food
- food waste
- active packaging
- shelf life
