IJFANS International Journal of Food and Nutritional Sciences

ISSN PRINT 2319 1775 Online 2320-7876

COMBINED APPROACH FOR SYNTHESIS OF EDIBLE FILM BIODEGRADABLE ATTRIBUTES

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Singh Himanshu , Sharma Ankita

Abstract

For decades, different form of plastic like polystyrene (PS), polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP), and polyethylene terephthalate (PET) have been widely dominating the food industry as a packaging material. These plastic packaging are non-biodegradable and of all the plastic generated for packaging only 5% is recycled, this causes serious problem as high-level plastic waste impact on environment by polluting it. This study emphasizes on developing biodegradable packaging using bio polymers that are found in plants and utilizing the fruit and vegetable waste. The film has been developed with the combination of 4% carrot waste, 4% banana peel, 4% starch and glycerol. The developed film has properties like biodegradable and edible. The film samples were analyzed on various parameter such as tensile strength, moisture analysis, FTIR analysis, SEM analysis and XRD analysis. Through analysis it was found that sample B has highest tensile strength which indicate that is has better bond formation, sample C has highest moisture content that can be correlated in decreasing the tensile strength of the film. FTIR analysis depict the various peaks of the starch, glycerol, dry carrot peel extract and banana peel. The SEM analysis showed the surface structure of the film sample in which sample A more smother surface and sample B and sample C are meshier and more fibrous. The XRD analysis describe the peak of the starch and banana peel extract.

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