Sustainable Materials for Food Packaging and Preservation: Food Security and Sustainability discusses the recent trends and development of biobased sustainable materials, focusing on their fabrication and application in food packaging and food preservation. This book brings together fundamental information and the most recent advances in the characterization, processing, and modification of sustainable materials and their impact on food packaging and storage of food products for improved shelf life. Special attention is offered on smart, active, and edible packaging, and the utilization of nanoemulsion and nanoencapsulation in the food industry is also discussed.
In addition, the book overviews the use of proteins, polysaccharides, microbial and chemically derived materials for food preservation.
Author Biography:
Tabli Ghosh is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Food Engineering and Technology, Tezpur University, India. She obtained her Ph.D. from the Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India. During her Ph.D., she has received DST INSPIRE Fellowship. Dr. Ghosh was a special research student at the United Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Gifu University, Japan, during her Ph.D with JASSO Fellowship. Additionally, she has also been the gold medalist during her Bachelor of Technology and Master of Technology in Food Engineering and Technology, Tezpur University, Assam, India. Her main work focuses on food nanotechnology, functional materials, sustainable materials, biodegradable polymers, bionanocomposites, edible food packaging and product development. Ruchir Priyadarshi is a Brain Pool Fellow at the Department of Food and Nutrition, Kyung Hee University, South Korea. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee in Biodegradable Food Packaging. In 2018, he served as Head of Biopolymer Innovations at Yash Papers Ltd., India, where he worked in the development of bagasse based molded tableware products. He has also worked as a Research Fellow at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, in 2012. His research interests include active food packaging, functional materials, sustainable materials, biodegradable polymers, and bionanocomposites. Swarup Roy is an assistant professor at the Department of Food Technology and Nutrition, School of Agriculture, Lovely Professional University, India. Dr Roy previously worked at the School of Bioengineering and Food Technology, Shoolini University, India. He was also a postdoctoral researcher at the BioNanocomposite Research Center, Kyung Hee University and Inha University, South Korea, and a research associate at IIT Indore, India. He obtained PhD in biochemistry from University of Kalyani as a DST INSPIRE fellow. His research work is focused on the preparation and application of biopolymer-based functional composite material for active and smart packaging applications.
