Spain develops new packaging materials to ensure the quality of functional beverages is intact

A Spanish dairy company is working on a packaging system that can help maintain the integrity of probiotics and further enhance the value of functional beverages. The company and two other companies in Spain jointly designed a test project. After testing, the probiotics can still be preserved when they work together with milk drinks or fruit juice drinks to reach the designated place, the cecum. .

It is said that the direct application of biological agents in food is a damage to the food itself, which leads to a large loss of probiotics in the handling of the product and on the shelf, and also leads to the death of a large number of probiotics in the process of entering the human stomach. The main purpose of the research technology is to protect the function of probiotics before they enter the human body. It is also possible to use coating techniques or fusion processing techniques to apply beneficial enzymes to packaging materials.

The coating technology will use microorganisms genetically engineered biopolymers, a sufficient amount of edible polysaccharides, proteins, lipids and specific microbial composite materials. In order to bring the probiotics to market, the above companies will carefully design packaging products or adopt prototypes currently available on the market, such as straw and specially processed sealing product lines. These packaging designs all have a long shelf life and they keep the probiotics separate from the product before consumption.

At present, some dairy companies have already had a keen interest in the product, especially the dairy companies in Spain and France. They are all looking for commercial use of the product.