Investigador Responsável: Ana Sanches Silva
Instituições participantes: Departamento de Alimentação e Nutrição do Instituto Nacional de Saúde Dr. Ricardo Jorge (INSA) e Institute of Composite and Biomedical Materials.
Financiamento: Fundação Para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT).
Duração: 01 de Janeiro de 2009 a 31 de Dezembro 2010.
Resumo: In order to improve the quality and shelf-life of lipid foodstuffs it is very important to inhibit the lipid oxidation process using antioxidant (AO) agents. In the last few years, food industry has been using synthetic antioxidants as food additives. Nevertheless, the recent world-wide tendency is to decrease the use food additives and to substitute synthetic AO by natural origin AO. Nowadays, alternatives to traditional food packaging are being studied and active food packaging with antioxidant properties seems to be the most promising to extend the shelf life of foodstuffs. In the present project we aim to develop and characterize a new active packaging with antioxidant properties due to the inclusion of tocopherol.