Background Edible food packaging, produced from edible polymers, is a kind of packaging
suitable for human consumption along with the contained food. Despite many advantages …

The nutritional property of starch is related to its rate and extent of digestion and absorption
in the small intestine. For nutritional purposes, starch is classified as rapidly available, slowly …

Biodegradable and edible cassava starch-glycerol based films with different concentrations
of yerba mate extract (0, 5 and 20 wt.%) were prepared by casting. The plasticizing effect of …

Mainly due to environmental aims, petroleum-based plastics are being replaced by natural
polymers. In the last decades, starch has been evaluated in its film-forming ability for …

Active and smart biodegradable films from cassava starch and glycerol with 5 wt.% of
different natural extracts such as green tea and basil were obtained by casting. Their …

Dietary starches are important sources of energy for many human societies and it is clear
that they can also make quite specific contributions to health. Resistant starch has received …

Edible packaging is a thin layer formed on food surface, which can be eaten as an integral
part of the food product. While an edible coating is formed as thin layer directly on the food …

The increase in consumers demand for high‐quality food products has led to the growth in
the use of new technologies and ingredients such as RS. RS occurs basically in all starchy …

Resistant starch (RS) encompasses those forms of starch, which are not accessible to
human digestive enzymes and are fermented in the colon producing short chain fatty acids …

Several different hydrocolloids, such as starch, have been proposed as suitable base
materials (matrices) for edible films in food packaging. Edible films from native and modified …