Food packaging

Food packaging is packaging for food. A package provides protection, tampering resistance, and special physical, chemical, or biological needs. It may bear a nutrition facts label and other information about food being offered for sale.

Packaging and package labeling have several objectives

The above materials are fashioned into different types of food packages and containers such as:

Primary packaging is the main package that holds the food that is being processed. Secondary packaging combines the primary packages into one box being made. Tertiary packaging combines all of the secondary packages into one pallet.

Tomato juice in steel cans

Aseptic packaging of soy milk

Bagged cake mix

Biscuit components: plastic bottles, paper bag

Container for bulk vegetable oil

Frozen processed food freezer in supermarket

Bag in box; box wine

Glass milk bottle and paperboard milk carton

Silk tea bag

Coffee beans in burlap bags, gunny sacks

Bushel baskets of fruit

Tea tin, can with removable cover

Folding cartons of cereal

Drink boxes

Packaged apples

Fresh fish in plastic shrink-wrapped tray

Shrink-wrapped frozen pork

Military MRE, bean and rice burrito in retort pouch

Condiments and spices

Aluminum can with an easy-open, full pull-out end

A Dip & Squeeze ketchup container

A choice of packaging machinery requires consideration of technical capabilities, labor requirements, worker safety, maintainability, serviceability, reliability, ability to integrate into the packaging line, capital cost, floorspace, flexibility (change-over, materials, etc.), energy usage, quality of outgoing packages, qualifications (for food, pharmaceuticals, etc.), throughput, efficiency, productivity, and ergonomics, at a minimum.

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