A video presentation on the Different

Food Packaging Materials.

Guide Questions:
1. What are the materials used for
packaging food products?
2. How will use each material?
3. Why it is important to learn this
process?
4. Is it applicable in packaging pastry
A video presentation on the
Different Food Packaging
Materials.
Source:
Guide Questions
1. What are the materials used for
packaging food products?
2. How will use each material?
3. Why it is important to learn this
process?
4. Is it applicable in packaging
pastry products?
Guide Questions
1. What are the materials used for
packaging food products?
2. How will use each material?
3. Why it is important to learn this
process?
4. Is it applicable in packaging
pastry products?
This lesson describes the
skills and knowledge required
to package and label pastry
products for storage and
transportation. It requires the
ability to correct packaging
materials.
The main objective of
packaging is to keep pastry
products in good condition
until it is sold and consumed.
Correct packaging is
essential to achieve these
objectives.
Packaging refers to any material
used to cover, contain, protect,
handle, preserve, identify,
describe, promote, and market
goods by a producer to the
consumer.
Several factors are taken into
consideration when designing an
appropriate packaging for goods,
such as the size, shape, durability,
space, and cost.
It plays a significant role
especially when dealing with
pastry products. Packaging
helps prolong its shelf life by
preventing mechanical damage.
It also helps in the retention of
the nutritive value of pastry
products.
1. Protect from mechanical damage in
transit and loading and unloading
2. Protect from loss of moisture and
any foreign odor contaminations
3. Protect from foreign body
infestation.
4. Legal compliance for values and
ingredients for consumers
1. - Plastics are
extremely useful as they can be made
either soft or hard forms, as sheets or
containers, and with different thickness,
light resistance, and flexibility.
1. –
Transparent or colored plastic is
usually used for packaging tarts,
pies and other types of pastries.
2. – Metals and tin cans are
used to package canned foods, which
have a longer shelf life, as well as cold
beverages like soft drinks and beer.
2. – Aluminum tin and steel
food packaging cans are strong, light,
ideal for long-term packaging, and can
be recycled.
3. – Glass bottles, jars and
containers are most used to pack any
kind of food-solid or liquid. They are
most used to package jams, pickles
and beverages.
3. – Glass food containers are
strong and hardy but requires careful
handling and are easy to recycle and
reuse.
4. – Can be used as
both a base or secondary packaging
material. They can be used to serve
and pack food at stalls like pizza and to
box and package pre-packaged food
items like packed snacks, perishables
and liquids.
Mrs. Gonzales would like to pack her
freshly baked pastry for her friend. In
order for her to produce a pastry with
colorful packaging which are easy to
open and flexible, what will she use?
What Packaging material would
Teacher Demayoga be used for her
pastry to retain its flakiness? This kind
of material also needs an extra care in
using because of its fragile
characteristics.
A pastry house owner is wondering if
what packaging material could she be
used to pack her pre-package pastry
before she sells it. What packaging
material will you suggest her?
Michell is selling pies in their town. She
wanted to sell her pie attached to its pie
plate as part of its packaging material.
What material could she be used to
both in baking as well as packaging?
• Enumerate the 4 Food packaging materials
and write a short description of it.
FOOD PACKAGING
DESCRIPTION
MATERIAL
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