Food Packaging Flashcards
It means enclosing or protecting products for distribution, storage, sale, and use of packaging the processed food into containers before they are marketed.
Packaging
It is extremely useful to the shop selling the product.
Bar code
It is very essential to any type of industry, which is crucial whether you are in food business, etc.
Packaging
What are the seven packaging materials?
(1) Plastic
(2) Metal
(3) Brick Carton
(4) Cardboard
(5) Glass
(6) Cotton
(7) Leaves
This is the most common packaging material and at the same time, one of the most difficult to dispose of.
Plastic
This is appropriate for packaging foods (canned foods).
Metal
It is used for soft drinks, beers, or any drinks.
Aluminum
It is solid, heavy steel covered with tin to protect it against rust.
Tin plate
This is a light, strong, or air-tight packaging material, which is ideal for transporting storage.
Brick Carton
This is appropriate for packaging materials wrapping, preferably “white cork”.
Cardboard
This is the traditional vessel in the home (jars, glasses, jugs, and others).
Glass
This packaging uses calico, a closely woven, strong, plain, cotton fabric which is inexpensive and is satisfactory as a wrap for flour, grains, legumes, coffee beans, and powdered or granulated sugar.
Cotton
These are most common and widespread leaves used for wrapping foods, such as certain kind of cheese and confectionery.
Leaves
It is used to wrap corn paste or black brown sugar, and cooked foods of all sorts are wrapped into leaves.
Cornhusk
These are used for wrapping spices.
Pan leaves
What are the five methods of food packaging?
(1) Home Canned Foods
(2) Freezing Foods
(3) Canned Foods
(4) Foil Packaging
(5) Nano Technology
One of the oldest and most common methods of food packaging in homes is the use of home canning.
Home canned foods
It is vegetables that are frozen, although berries and other fruits can also tend themselves to being frozen.
Freezing foods
Lead was used to line the cans and seal the top of the can.
Canned foods
It is one of the new methods of commercial food packaging.
Foil packaging
These are often pouches that are filled and then the bottom and top of the pouch is sealed with a heat seal similar to those used with commercial frozen packaging.
Foil wraps
It is a new innovation in commercial food packaging that makes packaging thinner and biodegradable.
Nano Technology
