Food Packaging from Plant-Based By-products
Sustainable Materials and Applications
- 1st Edition - March 2, 2027
- Latest edition
- Editors: Preetam Sarkar, Kunal Pal, Srinivas Janaswamy, Miguel Cerqueira
- Language: English
Food Packaging from Plant-Based By-products: Sustainable Materials and Applications addresses the growing need for sustainable, eco-friendly packaging solutions derived from agricu… Read more
Description
Description
Food Packaging from Plant-Based By-products: Sustainable Materials and Applications addresses the growing need for sustainable, eco-friendly packaging solutions derived from agricultural plant by-products. The book benefits its audience by delivering up-to-date scientific knowledge, practical case studies, and strategies to overcome technical challenges in the packaging industry. The book’s extensive table of contents covers extraction methods, characterization techniques, and applications of biopolymers from diverse plant by-products such as mango, grape, citrus, apple, tomato, wheat, rice, and legumes. It also explores advanced topics including nanocomposites, active and intelligent packaging, regulatory frameworks, consumer acceptance, and industrial scale-up processes. Each chapter is authored by experts from multiple countries, ensuring a global perspective on sustainable packaging innovations. Food Packaging from Plant-Based By-products: Sustainable Materials and Applications provides a comprehensive resource for researchers, industry professionals, and policymakers focused on developing innovative food packaging systems that improve food quality and safety while reducing environmental impact. It equips the readers with valuable insights to drive innovation, regulatory compliance, and consumer acceptance of sustainable packaging technologies worldwide.
Key features
Key features
- Presents latest research and case studies on sustainable food packaging from plant by-products
- Offers practical guidelines and optimization strategies for packaging development
- Includes environmental impact and techno-economic evaluations of packaging systems
- Addresses regulatory and consumer acceptance aspects of plant-based packaging
Readership
Readership
Food scientists, technologists, and process engineers in food packaging industry, Graduate students and researchers in food sciences and technology
Table of contents
Table of contents
1. Introduction to plant-based agricultural by-products
2. Molecules of interest from plant-based agricultural by-products
3. Methods of extraction and characterization of plant-based by-products
4. Mango by-products based food packaging systems
5. Grape by-products based food packaging systems
6. Citrus by-products based food packaging systems
7. Apple by-products based food packaging systems
8. Tomato by-products based food packaging systems
9. Potato by-products based food packaging systems
10. Carrots and eggplant by-products based food packaging systems
11. Wheat by-products based food packaging systems
12. Rice by-products based food packaging systems
13. Corn by-products based food packaging systems
14. Legumes and pulses by-products based food packaging systems
15. Tamarind by-products based food packaging systems
16. Nanocomposites from plant-based by-products
17. Plant by-products based active and intelligent packaging
18. Regulatory aspects in plant by-products based food packaging
19. Consumer acceptance of plant by-products based food packaging
20. Scale-up and industrialization of packaging materials from plant-based by-products
21. Life cycle assessment, environmental impact analysis, and techno-economic evaluations of packaging systems from plant by-products
2. Molecules of interest from plant-based agricultural by-products
3. Methods of extraction and characterization of plant-based by-products
4. Mango by-products based food packaging systems
5. Grape by-products based food packaging systems
6. Citrus by-products based food packaging systems
7. Apple by-products based food packaging systems
8. Tomato by-products based food packaging systems
9. Potato by-products based food packaging systems
10. Carrots and eggplant by-products based food packaging systems
11. Wheat by-products based food packaging systems
12. Rice by-products based food packaging systems
13. Corn by-products based food packaging systems
14. Legumes and pulses by-products based food packaging systems
15. Tamarind by-products based food packaging systems
16. Nanocomposites from plant-based by-products
17. Plant by-products based active and intelligent packaging
18. Regulatory aspects in plant by-products based food packaging
19. Consumer acceptance of plant by-products based food packaging
20. Scale-up and industrialization of packaging materials from plant-based by-products
21. Life cycle assessment, environmental impact analysis, and techno-economic evaluations of packaging systems from plant by-products
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: March 2, 2027
- Language: English
About the editors
About the editors
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Preetam Sarkar
Dr. Preetam Sarkar is an Assistant Professor of Food Sciences at the Department of Food Process Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Odisha, India. He completed his Ph.D. in Food Sciences from Purdue University, USA. The research at Dr. Sarkar’s lab at NIT Rourkela focuses on the development of delivery vehicles such as emulsions, films and coatings, for the protection of bioactive compounds such as antimicrobial agents for food safety applications. He has published 30 articles in SCI journals, 10 book chapters, and co-edited 3 books.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor of Food Sciences, Department of Food Process Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Odisha, IndiaKP
Kunal Pal
Dr. Kunal Pal is a Professor in the Department of Biotechnology and Medical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, India. His major research interests revolve around biomedical signal processing, biomedical equipment design, soft materials, and controlled drug delivery. He has published more than 100 publications in SCI-cited journals of high repute.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Biotechnology and Medical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Odisha, IndiaSJ
Srinivas Janaswamy
Dr. Srinivas Janaswamy, Associate Professor in the Department of Dairy and Food Science at South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, USA, has more than 25 years of research experience that constitutes interdisciplinary at the frontier between Carbohydrate Chemistry, Materials Science, and Life Sciences. His research program on ‘Functional Carbohydrates’ is about designing and developing novel carriers of bioactive compounds, biodegradable packaging materials, water purification, and plant nutrition. He has published more than 95 international peer-reviewed journal articles, so far, edited one book on “Natural Polymers for Drug Delivery” and two special journal issues on “Green Physical Processing Technologies for the Improvement of Food Quality” and “Advances and Challenges of Carrier Architecture for Bioactive Delivery Systems”. Dr. Janaswamy has international research collaborations with groups in China, Kenya, and India, and is the recipient of the 2019 Global Engagement Research Award, and the 2022 David Fee Memorial Lecture Award. He serves as an editorial board member of Food Chemistry Advances, Functional Food Science, and Physical Chemistry & Chemical Physics.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Department of Dairy and Food Science, South Dakota State University (SDSU), Brookings, USAMC
Miguel Cerqueira
Dr Miguel Cerqueira is a Staff Researcher at the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Portugal. His research focuses on developing sustainable, plant-based materials; polymer gels, specifically, oleogels; and innovative technologies such as encapsulation of functional compounds. He is the principal investigator for several research projects and has supervised over 20 Masters and PhD students. Dr Cerqueira has published more than 120 articles and is the editor of 6 books. In 2014, he won the Young Scientist Award, and in 2018, he joined the list of "Highly Cited Researchers" presented by Clarivate Analytics.
Affiliations and expertise
Staff Researcher, International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Braga, Portugal