Done By: EINSTEINS Group School Name: Qatar Secondary School for Girls Food packaging module: Students learn about the many functions of food packaging, besides protecting foods. Also, they learn how food packaging materials affect the environment. Then they design their own environmentally friendly package for delivering a hot baked potato. The aim of our work is to create a protective eco-friendly and cheap egg packaging. Our project: other objectives are to make a large achievement in this domain to protect the nature and to reduce the wastes.

1. AL-BAIRAQ
I AM DISCOVERING MATERIALS
FOOD PACKAGING
EINSTEINS
SEBA KAMAL SHOUQ ABDULAZIZ
AREEJ MOHSEN NAILA KHALID

2. INTRODUCTION
Food Packaging
is science, art and technology of
enclosing or protecting products for
distribution, storage, sale, and use.
Packaging also refers to the
process of design, evaluation, and
production of packages

3. INVESTIGATING FOOD PACKAGING
ACTIVITY 1 : POPCORN PACKAGING
The bag is typically partially folded when it is placed in a
microwave, and inflates as a result
of steam pressure from the heated kernels.
The design of a microwave popcorn bag is specifically
keyed to avoid popped kernel scorching.
A subsector, usually a metalized film laminated onto the
paper of the bag, absorbs microwaves and concentrates
heat at the film interface, thus ensuring a heat
distribution focused on the hard-to-heat flavor coating
so that the unpopped kernels are evenly coated prior to
popping, thereby ensuring even flavor throughout the
product. Additionally some popcorn is flawed and will
not pop because of possible damage to the shell which
allows the steam to escape. These unpopped kernels are
known as "old maids" or "spinsters

4. INVESTIGATING FOOD PACKAGING
ACTIVITY 2:TOMATO PACKAGING
Tomato – nylon –
foam
Tomato - Food
packaging peanutMaterial
didn’t squeeze
After throwing it 7 timesIt didn’t squeeze
after throwing it 6
times
Advantages
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It squeezed at
the seventh
time
Dis-advantages
Package 1 Package 2

5. INVESTIGATING FOOD PACKAGING
ACTIVITY 2 : TOMATO PACKAGING PICTURES

6. INVESTIGATING FOOD PACKAGING
ACTIVITY3:EGG PACKAGE EXPERIMENT
50 m 100 m 150 m 200 m 250 m
Non –
degradable
NO NO NO NO NO
Bio –
Degradable
( white )
NO NO NO NO YES
Non –
degradabl
e (green)
NO NO NO NO NO

7. INVESTIGATING FOOD PACKAGING
ACTIVITY3 : EGG PACKAGE EXPERIMENT PICTURE'S

8. EVALUATING THE IMPACT OF FOOD
PACKAGING ACTIVITY 3
Packing efficiency evaluating
ratios
Solid products
Packing mass (g)
Product mass (g)
Recycling rate :
Mass of packaging material – mass of
recycled material = mass of packaging with
recycling credit
Liquid products
Packaging mass (g)
Product mass (mL)

9. EVALUATING THE IMPACT OF FOOD PACKAGING
Crispy
sticks
Carton and
aluminum foil
first 184 g 360 g 0.51 Third
Ulker
rulokat
Carton and
plastic and
aluminum foil
second 136.4 g 576 g 0.23 Second
Milk Carton
and
plastic
third 31.4 g 1L 0.03 First
Product
Description
of
packaging ,
including
materials
Predicted
ranking
Total
mass of
packaging
and
product
Mass of
packagin
g alone
Mass of
product
alone
Packaging
/product
ratio

10. Weighing the packages Calculating the
ratio
Observing
the Net
Weight
INVESTIGATING FOOD PACKAGING
ACTIVITY 3 : EVALUATING THE FOOD PACKAGING
Taking notes about the
packages

11. INVESTIGATING FOOD PACKAGING
ACTIVITY 4 : RESEARCHING FOOD PACKAGING MARTIALS
Materials of
packaging
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Purpose of
packaging
Protect food
from damaging
Save the food
Make it easy to
handle food
To keep the
heat
Protect food
Materials
used in
packaging
Wax
Plastic
Plastic wrap
Plastic bag
Plastic
carton
Carton
Carton
Cork
Purpose of
each material
Cover it for
protection
Light weight
easy to open
and carry
Cheap price
light weight
Save heat
Cheap price
Light weight
packaged
Fresh foods
1.Apple
Straw berry
Staples
Bread
Maize
Prepared
foods
Hotdogs
Take-out foods
Pizza
Burger

12. INVESTIGATING FOOD PACKAGING
ACTIVITY 5 : MEASURING TEMPERATURES
Diagram of the packaging : Material used :
-cups cartoon
-carton home
-paper
-tape
-aluminum foil
Prediction about m value :
It will increase .
Actual m values on :
It decrease and the another
package is increase

13. INVESTIGATING FOOD PACKAGING
ACTIVITY 5 : MEASURING TEMPERATURES

14. INVESTIGATING FOOD PACKAGING
ACTIVITY 5 : MEASURING TEMPERATURES

15. Our Objective is to make a large achievement
in this domain to protect the nature and to
reduce our wastes .. We want to improve
ourselves by presenting our work and ideas ,
We aim to know a lot of information about food
packaging in order to help preserving food, as
its one of our major problems ..

16. DESIGNING A PROTECTIVE EGG PACKAGING :
First we will package the egg with an oval shaped
carton
After that we are going to put a padding at the bottom of
the egg’s carton which is a hydrogel material and
its called SODIUM POLYACRYLATE
then we will put the packaged eggs in this box and the box will always be with us
, we should not throw it cause every time we go to
the hyper market we have to put the eggs in it .. We call it
extra cheap protection!

17. AS A RESULT WHEN AN EGG IS BROKE THE SODIUM
POLY ACRYLATE WILL ABSORB THE YOLK AND THE
OTHER EGGS WILL BE PROTECTED FROM GETTING DIRTY
AND IT WON’T GET STUCK .. ALSO COVERING THE
EGGS WITH AN OVAL COVER WILL PROTECT IT FROM
BREAKING QUICKLY .. THE IMPORTANCE OF THE BOX
LIES IN CONTAINING AND COVERING THE WHOLE
EGGS.
In conclusion we think the box is going to be a big
factor of reducing wastes because instead of buying
an egg Carton every time and throw it we will use it
all the time as it will be an extra cheap Protection!

18. -What if the oval shaped carton made
wastes more than the normal trays due to
Its large number?
first the oval shaped cartons will be tiny so we
Won’t Need a lot of raw carton
Second its recyclable so it won’t impact negatively on
environment.
*EGG PACKAGING*
*
HYPOTHESIS
*

19. EGG PACKAGING
PROJECT STORY **
We didn’t work before on researches and inventions but now and
thanks to AL-Bairaq we gained skills and discovered skills
That we had but we didn’t know about it!
In AL-Bairaq workshops we knew how much damage
Caused by humans to us and our environment and the danger that
Surrounds us from all directions so we were thinking what can we do
About it we started to write down the conclusions from all the
Experiments we did and what are the ecofriendly materials we should
Use
That’s why we decided to make a beautiful product that has a new idea
And an attractive shape to seduce people as its cheap and ecofriendly.

20. *CONCLUSIONS*
We have learnt how to prepare a research that fits
the society. Also we knew how to take every single
point that serves our research into consideration .
We learnt how to achieve our purpose through
a successful team work and try our best to
create a creative project with perfect specifications
to attract everyone’s attention.

21. *Acknowledgment*
We want to thank our teacher samia ismail and
our friends who supported us during our journey in
Al-bairaq project.
We also want to thank Al-Bairaq team and the
sponsors who gave us the opportunity to participate in
Al-Bairaq project.