Edible films based on fruits and vegetables may be producedin industrial scale in order to decrease processing time, increaseyield, and reduce production cost, but temperatures lower thattheir degradation temperatures should be used. Thermogravime-try has shown that pectin-added banana puree edible films degradein 3 main stages within a nitrogen atmosphere (Martelli and others2013). The 1st stage, occurring at temperatures lower than 100 °C,was attributed to the desorption of moisture physically adsorbedin the film. The onset of the 2nd mass loss stage was at approx-imately 130 °C, where short-chain sugars (fructose, sucrose, andglucose), starch and proteins began to degrade irreversibly. The3rd stage occurred between 230 and 400 °C and was assigned tothe thermal deterioration of more complex compounds such aslignin, hemicelluloses, and cellulose. For those films, processingat temperatures above 130 °C is not recommended (Martelli andothers 2013).