Volatile Compounds: Trends, Advances, and Applications in Biodegradable Polymers for Food Packaging
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Flavours and Fragrances".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2022) | Viewed by 7413
Special Issue Editors
Interests: engineering; food science and technology; pharmacology and drug discovery; medicinal chemistry; ethnopharmacology and ethnobotany; phytochemistry; bioactive compound extraction methods, analytical chemistry; physical chemistry; engineering, biotechnology of natural products; essential oils; aromas
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Interests: food science technology; bioactives from food by-products; evaluation of shelf-life; development of functional foods
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Interests: medicinal chemistry & drug design; natural products; extraction of compounds of natural origin; new inhibitors; computer-aided drug design; structure-based virtual screening; pharmacophore modeling; molecular docking; molecular dynamics simulation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Currently, one of the major global concerns is food packaging. Plastic packaging derived from synthetic polymers can create several health risks because it can interact with food and release cytotoxic microparticles at the cellular level. It may also represent a serious environmental problem as it is resistant to biodegradation. Another alternative that can be considered ecologically correct is the film used in food packaging derived from renewable and biodegradable polymers generated from food processing waste. Proteins present great potential because they are low-cost biopolymers and easily available from sources such as pork, bovine, fish gelatins, or produced by microorganisms. In addition, biopolymers can be important carriers of natural bioactive compounds for the preservation of food quality, such as volatile compounds, e.g., thymol, ɣ-terpinene, carvacrol, linalool, borneol, camphor, eugenol, methyl eugenol, limonene, terpinen-4-ol, and 1,8-cineole among others. These compounds have demonstrated antioxidant and antimicrobial activities that can preserve the characteristics of food and prolong its shelf life. For these reasons, the present Special Issue has as its central theme advances in the application of volatile compounds in biofilms used as functional food packaging. Original articles and reviews are welcome.
Dr. Mozaniel Santana de Oliveira
Prof. Dr. Monica Rosa Loizzo
Jorddy Cruz
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Essential oils
- Volatile compounds in packaging
- Active biopolymer packaging
- Supercritical fluid impregnation
- Antimicrobial
- Antioxidants
- Mechanism of interaction of volatile compounds with biofilms
- Sustainable blends
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