in view of the importance environmental pollution caused by plastic food packaging, in recent years there is a considerable interest in edible films and coating based on polysaccharides, proteins, lipids or combination of them. edible coatings also serve as carriers of food additives such as anti-browning and antimicrobials agents, colorants, flavor, nutrients and spices, so act as active packa...

Background: Edible coating is an effective and widely used approach for preservation of quality fruits. The physiological changes remain intact with edible that leads to maintain the nutritional quality. current study endeavor develop appropriate material may be applied over fruits as freshness indicators. Methods: Chitosan nanoemulsion was prepared ultrasonication guava samples were dipped in ...

In recent years; the increased demand of fresh foods led to the search and finding new method which ensures to keep foods, with freshness and high quality [1]. Increasing consumer demand for extended plant material storage duration has mobilized the food industry to search for methods to maintain raw material quality and protection of a wide group of food products [2]. All fruits and vegetables...

application of edible coatings to enhance storage life of fresh fruit has recently been under considerable attention. this experiment was conducted in order to explore the effect of chitosan coating and storage temperature on the postharvest life of pomegranate (punica granatum l.) fruit. therefore, pomegranate fruits ‘rabbab-e-neyriz’ were dipped in 0, 1 and 2% aqueous chitosan solutions, air ...