What are the benefits of aseptic packaging?
A. • Convenience – portable, lightweight, shatterproof • Food Safety – cooking and packaging process ensures that the product is free from harmful bacteria and contaminants. • No refrigeration required – saves energy both in transportation and in storage. • Requires less energy to heat and sterilise the product than some other packaging methods. • Nutrition benefits – process places less heat stress on foods than canning therefore product can contain more nutrients as well as taste, colour and texture. • Low packaging to product ratio – typically 96% product and only 4 % packaging. • Empty packages are stored flat until ready to be used (unlike glass or cans). A standard semi-trailer truck can transport 1.5 million empty drink boxes versus only 150, 000 glass bottles. Alternatively semi-rigid aseptic plastic packaging can be delivered as a roll and formed, filled and sealed on fully automatic equipment. • Space efficient in transport when filled. Brick shape = more product able to be s
