Food Packaging: Principles and Practices

Food is packaged for protection against tampering and spoilage, efficient handling and for ease of distribution. It is also meant to present information regarding its nutritional profile and sale specifications and thus encourage marketing. Food packaging is an essential aspect of the food industry. Food can be packaged into boxes, cartons, cans, trays, wrappers and pallets. A diverse range of machinery is used for food packaging such as check weighing machines, cartoning machines, conveying and accumulating machines, filling machines, vacuum-packaging machines, etc. This textbook provides comprehensive insights into food packaging. Most of the topics introduced herein cover the principles and practices of food packaging. This book, with its detailed analyses and data, will prove immensely beneficial to professionals and students involved in this area at various levels.