Recent Advances in Pre-harvest, Post-harvest, Intelligent, Smart, Active, and Multifunctional Food Packaging

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Food is one of the key elements for survival of human beings. Preservation and quality assurance of food is necessary to meet the food demand in current era. Food protection is important at every step including pre-harvest, post-harvest, transportation, storage room and market shelves to get the good quality with enhanced shelf life. This review covers food packaging at pre-harvest and post-harvest level, types of food packaging (including active, intelligent and smart food packaging) and how to improve the antioxidant and antimicrobial properties of food using active food packaging. Nanotechnology is one the advanced technologies serving in food preservation, detailed advancements in nanotechnology based food packaging have also been summarized in this review. Overall, this review covers recent advances in food packaging including pre-harvest, post-harvest, intelligent, smart, active, and multifunctional food packaging.

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