Production of Biodegradable Edible Films from Tragacanth Gum and Determination of Their Physical and Mechanical Properties

Aghili Moghaddam, Hamideh Sadat; Emadi, Bagher; Hosseini, Fereshteh; Sadrnia, Hassan

doi:10.22101/JRIFST.2016.09.17.521

Production of Biodegradable Edible Films from Tragacanth Gum and Determination of Their Physical and Mechanical Properties

Document Type : Original Paper

Authors

¹ MSc Graduated, Department of Biosystems Engineering, International Campus of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

² Associate Professor of Department of Biosystems Engineering, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran

³ Assistant Professor, Food Additives Research group, ACECR, Khorasan Razavi Branch, Iran

10.22101/JRIFST.2016.09.17.521

Abstract

Due to the disadvantages of synthetic packaging materials such as migration into food, polluting the environment, difficult recovery, high costs of raw materials and production, natural biopolymers have recently been paid more attention as alternatives to the petroleum-derived plastics for packaging. The aim of this study was producing biodegradable edible films based on native tragacanth from Iran and determining their physical and mechanical properties. Also, the effects of different percentages of glycerol as a plasticizer (30%, 40% and 50%) on the films properties were investigated. According to the results, tragacanth based films showed appropriate mechanical properties and high transparency. Different percentage of glycerol did not affect the physical properties of the samples, but made some changes in mechanical properties. Among all treatments, films with 30% glycerol showed higher tensile strength in comparison to the other samples. Also, films with 50% glycerol showed more %E and lower stiffness. Because of high solubility of tragacanth films, they cannot be used in film production alone, but it is an appropriate candidate for composite films.

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