“…In order to increase the processability of cellulose as a film-forming matrix, cellulose derivatives have been produced by the partial substitution of hydroxyl groups by bulkier, less reactive groups. Different cellulose ethers have been demonstrated to be suitable film-forming matrices for food packaging applications, including methylcellulose (Bertolino et al, 2016), hydroxypropyl cellulose (Cavallaro, Donato, Lazzara, & Milioto, 2011;Cavallaro, Lazzara, Konnova, Fakhrullin, & Lvov, 2014), and hydroxypropyl methylcellulose (HPMC) (Alzate, Miramont, Flores, & Gerschenson, 2017;Moghimi, Aliahmadi, & Rafati, 2017). HPMC stands out because it is also water soluble, odorless, tasteless (Burdock, 2007), generally recognized as safe (GRAS) by the United States Food and Drug Administration (US FDA) (GRAS Notice No.…”