Natural Ingredients as Additive for Active Antioxidant Food Packaging

Abstract

Active packaging materials have been developed to interact with the packed products and to extend their shelf life. When regarding antioxidant active packaging, it also has the advantage of allowing lower antioxidant addition to the food product. Although many synthetic antioxidant have already been used as antioxidant additives for polymers, recent studies have demonstrated that natural antioxidants are promising sources of additives. In this chapter, some aspects related to natural antioxidants have been reviewed and a few natural antioxidant sources, used as additive for active antioxidant food packaging materials, have been discussed.