Recent advances in plant-based polysaccharide ternary complexes for biodegradable packaging

Nibedita Das Adhikary, Aarti Bains, Kandi Sridhar, Ravinder Kaushik, Prince Chawla, Minaxi Sharma

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Abstract

Polysaccharide-based packaging has been directed toward the development of technologies for the generation of packaging with biodegradable materials that can serve as substitutes for conventional packaging. Polysaccharides are reliable sources of edible packaging materials with excellent renewability, biodegradability, and bio-compatibility as well as antioxidant and antimicrobial activities. Apart from these properties, packaging film developed from a single polysaccharide has various disadvantages due to undesirable properties. Thus, to overcome these problems, researchers focused on ternary blend-based bio-packaging instead of the primary and binary complex to improve their characteristics and properties. The review emphasizes the extraction of polysaccharides and their combination with other polymers to provide desirable characteristics and physico-mechanical properties of the biodegradable film which will upgrade the green packaging technology in the future generation This review also explores the advancement of ternary blend-based biodegradable film and their application in foods with different requirements and the future aspects for developing advanced biodegradable film. Moreover, the review concludes that cellulose, modified starch, and another plant-based polysaccharide film mostly provides good gas barrier property and better tensile strength, which can be used as a safeguard of perishable and semi-perishable foods which brings them closer to replacing commercial synthetic packaging.

Original languageEnglish
Article number126725
JournalInternational Journal of Biological Macromolecules
Volume253
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 31 Dec 2023
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Biodegradable packaging
  • Extraction
  • Polysaccharides
  • Ternary blends

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Structural Biology
  • Biochemistry
  • Molecular Biology

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