#foodpackaging #innovation

When a customer enters a shop they skim through the products and decide to go for the one that seems the most reasonable to their eyes. For instance, from different products, the one that is designed attractively and has something unique like informative packaging, alluring colors, laminations, foiling or other custom techniques that make one product distinguished from the other.

Wheat straw and mango peels are normally disposed of in landfills or used as animal feed, but can provide feedstock polymers and antioxidants to produce renewable, biodegradable and nontoxic active food packaging.

Active food packaging has the ability to respond to temperature and time changes in food storage and could help keep products fresher for longer. This is one of the main findings of her recent doctoral study.

Unilever, together with Mondi, a global leader in packaging and paper, have developed a new high barrier paper-based packaging material for Unilever’s Colman’s dry Meal Maker and Sauces range by reducing plastic, increasing paper content, and consequently ensuring recyclability in the existing UK paper waste stream.

"Since Thai durians have been classified as an export item, we need to ensure that we can store durians to retain its freshness as well as ensure that its odour don't permeate outside the box," said Chutima Eamchotchawalit, governor of TISTR. "With this new innovation, e-commerce operators and fruit growers will be able to send durians via couriers without worrying that the latter would reject delivering highly perishable and smelly fruits," Chutima said.