Fruit and Vegetables Packaging
Expanded polystyrene packaging is the future in fruit and vegetables packaging. Its comparative advantage over other types of packaging (paper, plastic) is the significant increase in the lifetime of the product. It has excellent thermal insulation, does not absorb water (ideal for packing in ice) and is an inert material that does not deteriorate with time.
Expanded polystyrene is an innovative packaging material for the maintenance of sensitive vegetables - particularly broccoli, as agronomists argue according to a report in the "FROUTONEA Dec. 2009" journal..