The Active, Smart Future of Packaging

Food packaging helps contain, protect, preserve, distribute, and describe all types of food from fresh to highly processed, from harvest site to family pantry. These benefits to food were on prominent display in scientific presentations and exhibits at IFT15.

Packaging: Smart and Active 
Americans annually consume an average of more than 10 pounds of bananas per capita, but spoilage that occurs between banana plantations and local consumers wastes much more. The side-chain crystallizable p…