Utilization of carrot (Daucus carota L.) fiber as a filler for chitosan based films

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Why is it important?

Food waste is a common problem since we waste almost one third of completely edible foods. Especially, the pulp of fruit and vegetable juice production is only employed in limited food applications. However we determined that the carrot pulp waste can be a good cellulosic source for potential food packaging application.