FOOD PACKAGING
TYPES OF FOOD PACKAGING MATERIALS
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To protect and promote the food
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To make opening the food product hard
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To have excess material to throw in the rubbish bin
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to make the food product more exciting
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Detailed explanation-1: -Roles of Food Packaging. The principal roles of food packaging are to protect food products from outside influences and damage, to contain the food, and to provide consumers with ingredient and nutritional information (Coles 2003).
Detailed explanation-2: -The promotion function is related exclusively to the graphic design of the packaging product. It incorporates attractive logos, colours, symbols, text and any other graphic elements. The packaging design is used to influence a consumer’s purchasing decision.
Detailed explanation-3: -Robertson (2005) attributes to packaging four functions: containment, protection, convenience and communication. In fact, each one of these functions comprises a number of different technological, engineering and commercial objectives.