Recent Development in Edible Inks for Food Printing and Packaging Applications: A Review

This review aims to rigorously explore and report the edible ink-making process, printing methods, and applications of edible inks. It focuses on edible ink manufacturing and printing on various substrates, including challenges and future scope. This review seeks to comprehensively understand edible ink ingredients and their purpose in ink making.

The recent advancement in edible inks has given, a vast opportunity for printing Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients on Orodispersible films and printing edible inks directly on food items, including confectionery and bakery products. The edible ink developed from plant-based resources is a popular choice for complementary API in the oral dispersed films and edible inks on foodstuff due to their convenience, nutrient content, and ease of digest.

Conventional ink component's migration into the foodstuff has become an increasing issue in the food and pharmaceutical packaging industry. Therefore, edible inks are the solution for the harmful conventional inks.