Packaging material and formulation of flavoured yoghurts: how to choose the kind of polymer in accordance with the yoghurt composition?

Stability of flavoured phytosterol-enriched drinking yogurts during storage as affected by different packaging materials

“…Frederiksen et al have shown that exposure to light can induce oxidation in plain yogurt and that polylactate packaging material provides better protection than polystyrene against photodegradation processes. Saint‐Eve et al have reported that polystyrene material was preferable to polypropylene in fat‐free flavoured drinking yogurt packaging because it limited the aroma compound losses and avoided the development of odour and aroma defects when the product was stored at 4 °C.…”