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Table 2.

Thickness, water vapor permeability and water contact angle measurements analysis

Film	Thickness (mm)	Water vapor permeability (g mm m⁻² h⁻¹ kPa⁻¹)	WCA (°)
Corn starch film (M)	0.13 ± 0.01^A	0.26 ± 0.02^C	31 ± 22^G
Cassava starch film (C)	0.11 ± 0.02^B	0.27 ± 0.04^C	49 ± 1^EF
Chitosan film (Q)	0.04 ± 0.01^E	0.06 ± 0.007^E	104 ± 2^A
Corn starch–chitosan blended film (MQ)	0.09 ± 0.003^CD	0.19 ± 0.01^D	43 ± 3^F
Cassava starch–chitosan blended film (CQ)	0.08 ± 0.007^D	0.17 ± 0.01^D	60 ± 3^D
Corn starch film coated with chitosan (EM)	0.10 ± 0.01^BC	0.30 ± 0.06^BC	87 ± 3^B
Cassava starch film coated with chitosan (EC)	0.11 ± 0.01^B	0.36 ± 0.05^B	52 ± 7^E
Corn starch film coated with crosslinked chitosan (ERM)	0.11 ± 0.01^B	0.31 ± 0.01^B	79 ± 5^C
Cassava starch film coated with crosslinked chitosan (ERC)	0.12 ± 0.03^AB	0.41 ± 0.01^A	74 ± 2^C
PVC based film	0.008 ± 0.0005^E	0.03 ± 0.003^E	–
LDPE based film	0.008 ± 0.0005^E	0.003 ± 0.0001^E	–
Corn starch (CS) commercial film	0.011 ± 0.0005^E	0.04 ± 0.01^E	–

Different letters in the columns indicate that there are statistically significant differences (p < 0.05) between samples through the Tukey’s multiple range tests