New sustainable approach to reduce cassava borne environmental waste and develop biodegradable materials for food packaging applications

Food Packaging and Shelf Life

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages 8-19

  Tumwesigye, K S ^a,b   Oliveira, J C ^a   Sousa Gallagher, M J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b National Agriculture Research Laboratories   (Uganda)

Author keywords

Bitter cassava; Downstream processing; Film development; Sustainability; Waste reduction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84953295652     PISSN: 22142894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fpsl.2015.12.001     Document Type: Article

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