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LWT-FOOD SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Volume 41, Issue 2, Pages 359-366Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.lwt.2007.02.015
Keywords
edible films; water vapor permeability; mechanical properties; alginate; relative humidity; plasticizer
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Alginate films containing dissimilar amounts of guluronate (G) and mannuronate (M): M/G similar to 0.45 and M/G similar to 1.5, soaked in a calcium chloride solution up to 20 min were evaluated for water vapor permeability (WVP). M/G similar to 0.45 films proved to be better moisture barriers at all calcium immersion times compared to M/G similar to 1.5. WVP of M/G similar to 0.45 and M/G similar to 1.5 films decreased as time of immersion in calcium increased; after 3 min, a decrease in WVP was observed. M/G similar to 0.45 films soaked for 1 min in calcium were further analyzed to determine the effect of plasticizer and relative humidity (RH) on their mechanical properties and WVP, using fructose, glycerol, sorbitol, and polyethylene glycol (PEG-8000). Films without plasticizer showed a lower capacity to adsorb water compared to those with plasticizer. As RH increased, tensile strength (TS) decreased and elongation (E) increased for all films. This effect was more pronounced on films containing plasticizer, which had lower TS at all RHs. Plasticizer did not increase E at 58% RH. At 78% and 98% RH, glycerol, sorbitol and fructose showed a significant increase in E compared to PEG-8000 and no-plasticizer. PEG-8000 provided lower TS and E, while glycerol showed the highest among all plasticizers. There was no difference on WVP between no-plasticizer and glycerol. Fructose and sorbitol showed the lowest WVP while PEG-8000 showed the highest. (C) 2007 Published by Elsevier Ltd. on behalf of Swiss Society of Food Science and Technology.
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