What are the requirements of the food package?

2019-03-07

Food packaging requirements can be divided into internal and external

From the packaging performance point of view, food packaging requirements can be divided into internal and external two parts:

1. Internal requirements: the internal requirements of food packaging refer to the technical requirements for the quality of food in its packaging through packaging.

Strength requirement: refers to the packaging can protect the packaging of food in storage, stacking, transportation, handling the process of resistance to all kinds of damage from the outside, such as pressure, impact and vibration power.There are many factors related to the strength requirements of food packaging, mainly including transportation mode (such as automobile and airplane) stacking form (such as multi-layer stacking and cross-stacking) and environment (such as climate and sanitary environment).

Barrier property requirements: barrier property is one of the important performance in food packaging, a lot of food in the storage and packing, because of the barrier property of errands food flavor and quality change, ultimately affect the quality of the food. Barrier property requirement is decided by the food itself characteristic, its characteristics are external, internal block or selective blocking and so on. There is air barrier material, water, oil, light, microorganism and so on.

Respiratory requirements: some foods sold in distant markets, such as fresh fruits and vegetables, can still maintain respiratory function in the packaging and storage process. Therefore, such packaging materials or containers are breathable or can control respiratory function, so as to achieve the purpose of preservation.

Nutritional requirements: food in the packaging and storage process, will gradually loss of nutrition, so the packaging of food should be conducive to the preservation of food nutrition, more ideal is to be able to lock nutrition through packaging.

2. External requirements: the external requirements of food packaging are the use of packaging to reflect the characteristics, performance and image of food, as well as the external visualization, manifestation and means of food.

Safety requirements: the safety of food packaging includes hygiene and safety, handling safety and use safety, etc. Hygiene and safety refers to the fact that food packaging materials should not contain substances harmful to human body.In packaging technology, make the processed food in nutrition, color, flavor, as far as possible remain the same. In handling security refers to the packaging can guarantee the security problems in the process of transportation, loading and unloading, it should also include consumer after extraction and buy when shopping with safety. Use safety is to ensure that consumers in the open, in the process of eating is not hurt.

Promotional requirements: food packaging is one of the best means of food promotion. The performance, characteristics, edible methods, nutritional ingredients and cultural connotation of food can be publicized on the packaging. The promotional nature of food packaging includes necessary information promotion, image promotion, color promotion and structure promotion.

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