Food or edible material: processes – compositions – and products – Processes – Packaging or treatment of packaged product
Patent
1996-09-17
1999-06-22
Weinstein, Steven
Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products
Processes
Packaging or treatment of packaged product
426415, 426419, 426316, A23L 33409, A23B 7144, B65B 1100, B65B 2504
Patent
active
059141441
ABSTRACT:
A method for packaging fruits and vegetables, where a fruit or portion of a fruit, or a vegetable or a portion of a vegetable are packaged forming a wrapped product for transport or storage, the wrapped product having an open surface area of at least two-percent. The method comprises perforating a shrinkable film having a pre-shrunk size and a shrunken size with a plurality of apertures so that the apertures are spaced at selected positions on the pre-shrunk size of shrinkable film. The fruit or the vegetable is then enclosed in the pre-shrunk size of the shrinkable film so that when the pre-shrunk size is converted to the shrunken size, the shrunken size film forms a tight enclosure around a portion of the fruit or vegetable, such as a crown portion, and has a girdle of apertures around an open area of the fruit or vegetable, such as a stem area.
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Tani Michael Y.
Wolfe Steven K.
Hall Jeffrey A.
Weinstein Steven
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