FINDING UNIQUE FORMULATION FOR MANUFACTURING MICROWAVE POPCORN BAG

Abstract

Microwave popcorn bags are industrial oriented product which is being in use in our day today life. Available microwave popcorn bag are pertbrming well in terms of storage and maintaining flavour of food material kept inside them. But these have some serious disadvantages which causes severe health related problems. Their existing manufacturing technology is very costly. So there is great need to find out novel ways to nianutiicture these bags so that they can be manufactured at lower cost with no health harms. We have tried an attempt to do so, by replacing Aluminium foil used in modern microwave popcorn bags with 10010 PVA solution's coating. We have found that when this coating is done on outer side of envelope then it gives best results in terms of cooking or popping efficiency. We have also tnd out that optimized cooking time for food material inside such bags is. 3 minutes. Use of IVA solution will definitely reduced cost of manulacturing of these microwave popcorn bags. According to a rough estimate, the cost of Bag will he 6 Rs. PVA is not health hazardous and it is currently being used in various food items such as in manufacturing of chewing gum. Use of IVA also eliminates the risk of cancer which was major problem in long term use.