The Use of Essential Oils in Films and Environmental Coatings Openness for Active Packaging of Food

Petroleum derivate such as plastics represent a serious environmental problem. To this aim, recent research has focused on the Improve food packaging of Environmental openness for food products. The production of this new type of packaging requires checking of the impact of each of the ingredients on the packaging material of the basic features. essential oils have important synthetic oil for use in packaging food Environmental openness that this is mainly due to natural and functional properties (antioxidant / antimicrobial) properties of oral them and may not be biodegradable. film in food packaging on various properties (appearance, texture, etc.) affect all of these factors directly affect the product was Customer friendly.. The purpose of this article is to review the latest findings about the effect of oil on the characteristics of films and edible coatings such as molecular structure, physical properties (texture, Inhibitory and Appearance) , antimicrobial properties and anti-bacterial. What has been achieved so far from various studies is that Essential oils affect the integrity of the polymer matrix, and it is depends of the type of oil and polymer reaction leads to physical changes. In general, the structure of film is weakened by adding oil if the Water resistant be strengthened and transparency of film is reduced. Essential oil Can create antioxidant and antimicrobial properties in the film . Essential oil mixtures and polymer oil reactions determines its impact as an active component.