Chitosan-Based Films with Essential Oil Components for Food Packaging

Magdalena Woźniak; Joanna Młodziejewska; Karolina Stefanowska; Lucyna Mrówczyńska; Anna Sip; Renata Dobrucka; Izabela Ratajczak

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Chitosan-Based Films with Essential Oil Components for Food Packaging

Magdalena Woźniak

Joanna Młodziejewska Karolina Stefanowska

Coatings Vol. 14 No. 7 pp. 830 · MDPI AG

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Abstract

Chitosan-based films show great potential in terms of application in food preservation and are also promising carriers of biologically active ingredients. This paper presents the potential use of chitosan-based films with the addition of essential oil components, e.g., carvacrol, eugenol, and isoeugenol, intended for food packaging. The characteristics of the obtained films were determined, including antibacterial, mechanical, barrier, and structural parameters. In addition, the antibacterial and antioxidant effects of the essential oil components were assessed. Eugenol (44.41%) and isoeugenol (43.56%) showed high antiradical activities, similar to the activity of Trolox (44.33%), which is used as a standard antioxidant. In turn, carvacrol was characterized by the strongest effect against the examined strains of bacteria, both Gram-positive and Gram-negative. The chitosan film with carvacrol showed the most valuable antibacterial and mechanical properties (tensile strength and elongation at break). The antibacterial activities of the chitosan–carvacrol films were higher than that of the carvacrol solution. The inhibition zones of the chitosan–carvacrol films were in the range 29–41 mm (except for Enterococcus faecalis, with an inhibition zone of 15 mm) compared to the inhibition zones of the carvacrol solution (28 mm). The results showed that chitosan is an effective carrier of fragrance compounds, mainly carvacrol. However, all the tested chitosan-based films with the addition of fragrance compounds showed appropriate parameters (biological, mechanical, and barrier), which makes them an ecological alternative to plastics intended for food packaging.

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Published: Jul 03, 2024
Vol/Issue: 14(7)
Pages: 830
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Authors

M

Magdalena Woźniak

Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Poznan University of Life Sciences, Wojska Polskiego 75, 60625 Poznań, Poland

J

Joanna Młodziejewska

Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Poznan University of Life Sciences, Wojska Polskiego 75, 60625 Poznań, Poland

K

Karolina Stefanowska

Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Poznan University of Life Sciences, Wojska Polskiego 75, 60625 Poznań, Poland

L

Lucyna Mrówczyńska

Department of Cell Biology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 6, 61614 Poznań, Poland

A

Anna Sip

Department of Biotechnology and Food Microbiology, Faculty of Food Science and Nutrition, Poznan University of Life Sciences, Wojska Polskiego 48, 60627 Poznań, Poland

R

Renata Dobrucka

Department of Industrial Products and Packaging Quality, Institute of Quality Science, Poznań University of Economics and Business, Al. Niepodległości 10, 61875 Poznań, Poland

I

Izabela Ratajczak

Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Poznan University of Life Sciences, Wojska Polskiego 75, 60625 Poznań, Poland

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Magdalena Woźniak, Joanna Młodziejewska, Karolina Stefanowska, et al. (2024). Chitosan-Based Films with Essential Oil Components for Food Packaging. Coatings, 14(7), 830. https://doi.org/10.3390/coatings14070830

Chitosan-Based Films with Essential Oil Components for Food Packaging

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