In food industries, Nano-Materials & technology have covered many aspects including food safety, packaging
materials, nanosensors, nutrients delivery systems, bioavailability, and new materials for pathogen detection.
Generally, there are main four areas which could benefit from nanotechnology, new functional materials,
nanoscale processing, nano-products, and methods & instrumentation design for improving food safety and
biosecurity. Nano-Materials & technology are applied to food processing to enhance food coloring and flavoring.
Food also could be nano-encapsulated by nano-technology. The nano-encapsules delivery and release
nutritional additives or functional food ingredients to their specific site of action. Within the food sector nano-
particle size supplements and additives can prolong food shelf-life.
In summary, there are a large number of potential applications of Nano-Materials & nanotechnology within the
food industries. However, it is very difficult to be really used commercially because many methods and process
are either too expensive or too impractical to implement on an industrial scale. This limits their commercial
potential in the food industries.
This research aims at developing a cost-effective economic nanotechnology system which can be adopted in
food processing, such as manufacturing nano-capsules containing functional oil or protein.