Food Science and Technology International | 2019
Edible iron yam and maize starch convenient food flavoring packaging films with lemon essential oil as plasticization
Abstract
Nowadays, convenient food such as instant noodles has become very popular due to its ease of preparation, reasonable price, and delicious taste. Onstant noodle flavoring mix has generally been provided in a separately packaged plastic film pouches designed for single usage (Aguirre-Joya et al., 2018). However, there are some shortcomings because of the using plastic film pouches for condiments including: (1) plastic products are hard to be degradation, causing great white pollution to our environment; (2) leftover condiments may remain in the pouch after application to food; (3) there is a potential threat to people’s health due to the transfer of additives originally incorporated in the plastic films into the condiments.