is to avoid or at
least to decrease
moisture
transfer
between the food
and the
surrounding atmosphere, film water vapor permeability should be
as low as possible (Gontard et al., 1992). Water vapor permeabilities
(Kw) are presented in Table 2. Kw values ranged from 9.6 108 g
water/h.m.Pa, for the rice starch films plasticized with 0.2 g