Smart food packaging: Recent advancement and trends.

Area of Science:

• Food Science
• Materials Science
• Consumer Science

Background:

• Food packaging is crucial for product safety, quality, and consumer communication.
• Evolving consumer demands drive innovation in packaging beyond fundamental functions.
• Traditional packaging functions include protection, containment, communication, and convenience.

Purpose of the Study:

• To provide an overview of smart food packaging technologies.
• To discuss the evolution from conventional to advanced smart packaging.
• To cover conventional, smart active, smart intelligent, and dual-function smart packaging.

Main Methods:

• Review of existing literature and technological developments in food packaging.
• Categorization of smart packaging systems based on functionality.
• Analysis of advancements in active and intelligent packaging integration.

Main Results:

• Food packaging has advanced to include active packaging (modifying the internal environment) and intelligent packaging (real-time monitoring).
• Emerging technologies include smart active packaging, smart intelligent packaging, and dual-function smart packaging.
• These innovations enhance food safety, quality, and supply chain transparency.

Conclusions:

• Smart packaging technologies are critical for meeting modern food industry demands.
• Advanced smart packaging offers enhanced protection and monitoring capabilities.
• Future packaging solutions integrate active and intelligent features for superior performance.