| This research focuses on the development of cereal products and a bioactive packaging material containing antimicrobial agents using extrusion technology. Extrusion technology has been established as a very effective cooking process, which combines thermal and shear energy input. Therefore, extrusion technology is widely used in the food industry and provides advantages such as simplification of unit process operations, high productivity, and good energy efficiency compared to some traditional processing methods. Initial research focused on the development of extruded cereal products using barley.; The second study involving extrusion focused on the characterization of bioactive packaging material. Biodegradable packaging materials based on starch as an environmentally safe biopolymer have been considered as a replacement for synthetic packaging material. The objective was to develop a biodegradable starch packaging material containing an antimicrobial agent (lysozyme) using extrusion technology. Pea starch, which inherently has good gel strength, was used as the source material for manufacturing the biodegradable packaging material. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)... |
