What Should We Pay Attention To When Designing Food Packaging Boxes?

Food is the most important thing for people, and everyone knows that food packaging is equally important. The design of food packaging boxes has special requirements. It is necessary to pay attention to maintaining the color, aroma and taste of food, and to make food easy to transport and improve the aesthetic effect of food. So what should be paid attention to in the printing design of food packaging boxes?

1. Health and hygiene of food packaging boxes

Food packaging boxes must ensure that the packaging materials themselves are healthy, non-toxic and non-volatile substances, that is, the packaging materials themselves must have stable organizational components. In addition, during the packaging process, no chemical reaction will occur with food ingredients and chemical components. During storage and transportation, no chemical changes will occur due to changes in climate and normal environmental factors.

2. Strength requirements for food packaging boxes

Since food has to go through the circulation process of stacking, transportation, storage, etc., and can only reach the hands of consumers after packaging, the food packaging is required to have a certain strength and will not be damaged during the circulation process.

3. Barrier requirements for food packaging boxes

The barrier requirements for food packaging are determined by the characteristics of the food itself. Different foods have different requirements for the barrier properties of their packaging. The barrier property of food packaging, on the one hand, ensures that various bacteria, dust, light, gas, moisture, etc. in the external environment cannot enter the food in the package; on the other hand, it ensures that the moisture, oil and aromatic components contained in the food will not penetrate into the food that is essential to the quality of the food, so as to ensure that the packaged food will not deteriorate.

4. Temperature requirements for food packaging boxes

Most food processing processes are heat-treated, some are high-temperature processing after packaging, such as canned food and cooked food, and some are hot filling, such as many hot drinks. Many foods have a long shelf life. If it reaches or exceeds one year, foods stored at room temperature will inevitably experience hot summers that last to more than 300 degrees Celsius, which requires food packaging to have a certain temperature resistance. Due to the difference in food and processing technology, the requirements for temperature resistance are also different.

5. Promotion requirements for food packaging boxes

Promotion is one of the important functions of food packaging. Food packaging materials required for promotion should have the characteristics of easy printing, easy molding, easy coloring, and light weight.

6. Light protection requirements for food packaging boxes

Light is very unfavorable for maintaining food quality and nutrition. In particular, ultraviolet radiation will cause the oil in food to oxidize and cause rancidity, and will promote the loss of vitamin B and vitamin C in food. In addition, light will also cause amino acid decomposition in food, sugar melting and other physical and chemical changes that are not conducive to maintaining food quality. Therefore, for good food packaging printing design, light protection is also very important.

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