The invention discloses a photo-
crosslinked chitosan-
riboflavin edible film and a preparation method thereof. The preparation method comprises the following steps of weighing a certain amount of
chitosan powder, and adding the
chitosan powder into an
acetic acid solution to prepare a
chitosan solution, adding a certain amount of
glycerol into the chitosan solution as a
plasticizer, then adding a proper amount of
riboflavin powder under a dark condition, and uniformly stirring to obtain a
mixed solution, removing bubbles from the
mixed solution,
casting the
mixed solution on a flat plate, and irradiating the flat plate under
ultraviolet light to form a film, and finally,
drying the film on the flat plate, and stripping from the flat plate to obtain the film.
Chitosan and
riboflavin are used as raw materials, the edible film which is green, non-toxic,
environmentally friendly and good in stability is prepared, the
molecular property of chitosan is improved through a photo-crosslinked method, and under excitation of illumination, the chitosan edible film which is good in physical and chemical performance and remarkably improved in
antibacterial effect is prepared.