Water Sorption and Water Vapour Permeability Properties of Polysaccharide (Locust Bean Gum) Based Edible Films

LWT

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 63-67

  Aydinli, Meltem ^a   Tutas, Mehmet ^a  

^a AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Edible film; permeability; locust bean

Indexed keywords

EID: 0008823044     PISSN: 00236438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/fstl.1999.0617     Document Type: Article

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