Alginate-based edible films and coatings for food packaging applications

Foods

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2018, Pages

  Parreidt, Tugce Senturk ^a,b   Müller, Kajetan ^b,c   Schmid, Markus ^d  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR PROCESS ENGINEERING AND PACKAGING IVV   (Germany)

^c Fachhochschule Kempten Hochschule fur Technik und Wirtschaft   (Germany)

^d ALBSTADT SIGMARINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Additives; Alginate; Application method; Crosslinking; Edible coating; Edible film; Food; Food packaging; Transport mechanism

Indexed keywords

EID: 85062232854     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23048158     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/foods7100170     Document Type: Review

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