Food Packaging: Foam
Eggs and meats often have foam packaging – a resin which can be made by bioprocessing cornstarch.
The term bioproducts designates a wide variety of corn-based products made from natural, renewable raw materials that are used in food and also in some of the most innovative industrial and consumer products available today, often as a petroleum substitute.
For many decades, fermentation of corn-derived glucose has provided a multitude of bioproducts, including organic acids, amino acids, vitamins, and food gums.
Thanks to decades of work by scientists and researchers in our industry, the contents of a simple kernel of corn are the basis for a thousand everyday products, such as pharmaceutical casings, paper goods, and automobile tires.
Corn-based polymers, sometimes known as biopolymers, are high-performance, sustainable, and biodegradable alternatives to petroleum-derived materials. Biodegradable and energy efficient caps, cups, paper coatings, fabrics, carpeting, and a host of other products are all possible today because of corn-based biopolymers. And with technological improvements in fermentation, they are moving into the next generation of technology: Utilized in 3-D printing inks and studied by nanotechnology scientists as a method for delivering cancer treatments.
Eggs and meats often have foam packaging – a resin which can be made by bioprocessing cornstarch.
German researchers are developing paint for cars that is derived from cornstarch and automatically repairs minor scratches.
Cornstarch is a key ingredient in cellulose acetate phthalate (CAP), which coats pills to ensure their structural integrity, ease of swallowing, & timed release of medicine inside.