ABSTRACT
Growing consumer interest in better quality food and extended shelf life contributes to the development of new technologies that maintain these characteristics between production and consumption. In this context, an innovative food packaging system has emerged to protect the products and assign new functions such as microbial control and registration of critical parameters. Active packaging provides biological activity to preserve the food while intelligent packaging provides information to consumers about product quality through direct visual changes, usually in color. Besides, advances in nanotechnology allow the application of nanomaterials for the development of active and intelligent packaging. The nanometric diameter, properties such as elasticity and mechanical resistance, high degradation temperature, and high surface area concerning volume demonstrate the advantage of using nanofibers for food packaging. Moreover, nanofibers have high porosity, and the ability to incorporate biocompounds allows the development of active and intelligent packaging. The objective of this chapter is to address the electrospun nanofibers technology and the addition of biocompounds in this process for application in active and intelligent food packaging.
