{"id":79567,"date":"2018-06-12T08:42:21","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T15:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/starch-can-replace-normal-plastic-in-food-packaging"},"modified":"2018-06-12T08:42:21","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T15:42:21","slug":"starch-can-replace-normal-plastic-in-food-packaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/starch-can-replace-normal-plastic-in-food-packaging","title":{"rendered":"Starch can replace normal plastic in food packaging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/starch-can-replace-normal-plastic-in-food-packaging.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eventually all petroleum-based material in food packaging will have to be replaced with bio-based material. Research done at Karlstad University shows that a mixture of starch and other polymers forms an equally effective protective barrier.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFood packaging has to protect and extend the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/shelf+life\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">shelf life<\/a> of food, and should also work during transport,\u201d says Asif Javed, doctor in Chemical Engineering at Karlstad University. \u201cTo meet these demands, a protective barrier is needed in paper-based packing such as those used for juice or dairy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-06-starch-plastic-food-packaging.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;06-starch-plastic-food-packaging.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eventually all petroleum-based material in food packaging will have to be replaced with bio-based material. Research done at Karlstad University shows that a mixture of starch and other polymers forms an equally effective protective barrier. \u201cFood packaging has to protect and extend the shelf life of food, and should also work during transport,\u201d says Asif [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}