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Packaging is the technology of enclosing or protecting products for distribution, storage, sale, and use and also refers to the process of designing, evaluating, and producing packages. Packaging can be described as a coordinated system of preparing goods for transport, warehousing, logistics, sale, and end use. Packaging contains, protects, preserves, transports, informs, and sells. In many countries it is fully integrated into government, business, institutional, industrial, and personal use. 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. Food packaging could be a very different world in the near future. From "electronic tongues" that can "taste" products to bacteria battling nano particles that are 50,000 times thinner than human hair, researchers are hard at work on some mind-blowing innovations. Taking inspiration from an apple, which protects its matter with edible skin, the team's inventions thus far include pumpkin soup in spinach membrane, lemon juice in a lemon membrane and melted chocolate in a cherry membrane. The book starts with an introduction, history, classification of materials and then introducing the package requirements for each class of food products.