Keeping strawberries fresh using bioactive packaging

(Institut national de la recherche scientifique - INRS) Qu é bec produces more strawberries than any other Canadian province. Strawberries are delicate and difficult to keep fresh. In response to this challenge, Monique Lacroix, a professor at INRS (l'Institut national de la recherche scientifique), and her team have developed a packaging film that can keep strawberries fresh for up to 12 days. The team's findings on how this film protects against mould and certain pathogenic bacteria have been published in Food Hydrocolloids.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news