Food Packaging
Food packaging come in all shapes and sizes
Students learn how food packages are designed and made, including three main functions. Packaging design and materials must keep food clean, protect or aid in the physical and chemical changes that can take place in food, and identify a food appealingly. Then, in the associated activity, students act as if they are packaging engineers by designing and creating their own food packages for particular food types.
An entire industry is devoted to packaging engineering and the industry is expanding as more and more products are created. Packaging engineers focus on the same components that students focus on in this exercise, which includes research, design, production, marketing and analysis.
After this activity, students should be able to:
- Identify four functions of a food package.
- Explain how each food package design works.
- Identify the chemical and physical changes different types of materials prevent or facilitate.
- Explain what a food packaging engineer does.