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Casein films crosslinked by tannic acid for food packaging applications
Ist Teil von
Food hydrocolloids, 2018-11, Vol.84, p.424-434
Ort / Verlag
Elsevier Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr
2018
Quelle
Elsevier ScienceDirect Journals
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Natural proteins are good candidates for producing food packaging films due to their excellent functional properties. However, some deficiencies as their poor water resistance need to be addressed before films can be used in daily applications. This article explores the use of a low-cost plant-derived phenolic compound, tannic acid, as crosslinking agent for producing plasticized casein films. FTIR, high-resolution NMR, and rheological measurements confirmed the crosslinking reaction between casein amine groups and tannic acid. The influence of crosslinking agent concentration on the mechanical and viscoelastic properties, thermal stability, swelling behavior, water vapor permeability, cytotoxicity and degradation in composting conditions were investigated. The obtained results showed that tannic acid was an effective crosslinking agent for casein protein, so the yielded films which exhibit improved physicochemical properties, can be employed for food packaging applications.
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•Tannic acid, a low-cost plant-derived phenolic compound was employed to crosslink casein films.•Functional properties of the films were significantly improved by the tannic acid crosslinking.•Casein films resulted non-cytotoxic for food packaging applications.•Biodegradation of casein films could be controlled by the tannic acid concentration in the protein matrix.