Essential Oil Blended Moringa Gum Composite Films For Food Packaging Application

Moringa Gum was blend with two different essential oils (clove and cinnamon oil) to get a thin
composite film by solution cast method. The morphology of the films was studied using scanning
electron microscope. Physio-mechanical properties were analysed and compared with the pristine film.
From the obtained results, it was found that the water solubility, thickness, transparency, mechanical
strength, antibacterial activity of the prepared composite films showed better improvement when
compared to the parent film. On exact comparison, clove oil – moringa gum composite film has given
overall best result that was followed by cinnamon-moringa gum composite film and pure moringa gum
film due to the interaction of their functional groups. Thus, the synthesised films will act as an ideal
material for food packaging application.