National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
The rationale of this elementary work was to develop starch based bio-coat for food items using permutation combination of starch of different sources (corn, potato, tapioca) and various plasticizers (glycerine, rice bran oil, sesame oil, castrol oil, soya bean oil and olive oil). An eco-friendly alternative to conventional petro-plastic polymer with a futuristic application as edible food wraps was intended as the outcome. Amalgamation of corn, tapioca and potato starch in even proportions, generated the finest bio-plastic sheet; glycerine was chosen as the ideal plasticizer as vegetable oils yielded brittle bioplastics. Inclusion of red cabbage extract to this bioplastic formulation exhibited colour change with pH variation, a simple panacea for spoilage detection.
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