“…Among these, protein-based coatings are the most valuable because they can add nutritional components to the coated foods (Baldwin et al, 1995). Proteinbased coatings can be derived from plants (corn, wheat, soybean) (Anon, 1990;Chuah et al, 1983;Gennadios and Weller, 1990) or animal sources such as egg white (Gennadios et al, 1996;Park et al, 1996), collagen (Anon, 1990;Liberman and Gilbert, 1973) or milk proteins (Avena-Bustillo and Krochta, 1993;Mahmoud and Savello, 1992;Maynes and Krochta, 1994;Mchugh and Krochta, 1994;Perez-Gago and Krochta, 2001;Sothornvit and Krochta, 2001).…”