The course covers packaging developments packaging functions and the quality of packaged fruit and vegetable products. It also focuses on the types of fruit and vegetable packaging materials including metal, glass, paper, paperboard, and plastics, putting emphasis on their chemical and physical properties, their functional properties, interaction with foods and applications in selected fruit and vegetable food commodities. Moreover, issues such as active packaging, MAP, intelligent packaging and packaging interaction
- Teacher: Marid Tadesse