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Abstract
Food packaging for meat, processed food, and fresh food is often equipped with adsorbent pads to regulate moisture. However, most adsorbents are derived from synthetic polymer materials. There has been increasing demand for functional packaging materials that are not only durable, cost-effective, and well-designed, but also capable of extending the product shelf-life. Butterfly pea (Clitoria ternatea L.) flowers and silver nanoparticles have been reported to exhibit antibacterial activity in several studies. This study aimed to synthesize novel aerogel composites made of carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC), bacterial cellulose (BC), and C. ternatea flower extracts as adsorbent material in food packaging. BC was used as a reinforcing agent. The composites were synthesized by reacting silver solution and carboxymethyl cellulose, and then adding bacterial cellulose and C. ternatea extracts. Three different ratios of C. ternatea extract i.e. 0.5 %, 1 % and 2 % were used in this study (AT1, AT2, AT3). These aerogel composites were tested against four pathogenic bacteria i.e. Staphylococcus aureus, Eschericia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Salmonella Typhimurium using disk diffusion and microdilution methods. The aerogel composites were characterized using X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscope (SEM), X-ray fluorescence (XRF), Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, and color analysis. The results showed that AT3 had good antibacterial activity against P. aeruginosa, S. Typhimurium, and S. aureus with inhibition zones of 10.14 mm, 11.63 mm, and 7.69 mm, respectively, while composite AT2 had good inhibition against E. coli with the value of 9.82 mm. Equipped with good antibacterial activity, these aerogel composites have excellent potential to be used as adsorbent pads in food packaging to prolong the food shelf-life.
期刊介绍:
Official Journal of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering:
Part C
FBP aims to be the principal international journal for publication of high quality, original papers in the branches of engineering and science dedicated to the safe processing of biological products. It is the only journal to exploit the synergy between biotechnology, bioprocessing and food engineering.
Papers showing how research results can be used in engineering design, and accounts of experimental or theoretical research work bringing new perspectives to established principles, highlighting unsolved problems or indicating directions for future research, are particularly welcome. Contributions that deal with new developments in equipment or processes and that can be given quantitative expression are encouraged. The journal is especially interested in papers that extend the boundaries of food and bioproducts processing.
The journal has a strong emphasis on the interface between engineering and food or bioproducts. Papers that are not likely to be published are those:
• Primarily concerned with food formulation
• That use experimental design techniques to obtain response surfaces but gain little insight from them
• That are empirical and ignore established mechanistic models, e.g., empirical drying curves
• That are primarily concerned about sensory evaluation and colour
• Concern the extraction, encapsulation and/or antioxidant activity of a specific biological material without providing insight that could be applied to a similar but different material,
• Containing only chemical analyses of biological materials.