How to the Perfect type of Food Packaging

Food packaging has many uses. Some help create portion sized items, others offer information on the packs, while some like biscuit packaging protect the food as well. These package options are largely bifurcated into nine types. They are:

1. Aseptic processing: These packages are for sterile foods or for food items that need to be sterile. These include milk and its various products, liquid eggs and other foods that need processing and preserving for a long duration. They are made up of a mixture of polyethylene, paper and aluminium.

2. Bags: They are the most common form of packaging used for fruits, snacks and chips. The bags are made up of various types of plastics with or without an inner lining of metal meant to separate the food from the environment.

3. Boxes: They are used for food products that need easy transportation like frozen or fresh pizzas, cereals, crackers, etc. They are generally made up of wood, metal or corrugated fiberboards.

4. Cartons: Cartons and boxes are both made up of corrugated fiberboard. The cartons however have four sub-categories. The most common is the egg carton which is molded in the shape of the egg to protect them. Aseptic cartons contain milk and soup. The folding cartons are flat pieces of fiberboards that are assembled by the manufacturer and the gable top cartons have a top that can be pinched and pulled to be opened. 

5. Trays: These are shallow pans in which meats and plant seeds are carried. They usually have a raised edge to hold the product in place and are generally made out of paperboard and wrapped with paper or polyethylene.

6. Cans: These are almost entirely made of metals and are used to preserve and transport food items. Many cans are also made of glass especially when they are used to can food items at homes.

7. Flexible packs: These are similar to bags and are meant to protect the food from the environment like bagged salads.

8. Pallets: These are used mainly for mass transportation of various products by all industries by stacking them on top of these pallets.

9. Wraps: They are individual food packaging done to protect the food from the environment and when handled by hand like candy bars and biscuit packaging. A tight wrap of biscuits is associated with a better product by the consumers.