Table 1.

Commercially Used Nature-Derived Polymers in the Agri-Food Sector

	Food				Agriculture
	Stabilizer (Rayner et al., 2016)	Thickener (Lovegrove et al., 2017)	Gelling (Lovegrove et al., 2017)	Food Packaging (Grujić et al., 2017)	CRF (Akalin and Pulat, 2019, Jiao et al., 2018, Perez and Francois, 2016, Tang et al., 2017)	Pesticides (Neri-Badang and Chakraborty, 2019, Campos et al., 2015)	Water Retention (Thombare et al., 2018, Demitri et al., 2013)
Alginate	✓	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Carrageenan	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓		✓
Cellulose				✓	✓	✓	✓
Chitosan				✓	✓	✓
Curdlan
Cyclodextrin						✓
Gelatin	✓		✓		✓
Guar gum							✓
Pectin						✓
Starch		✓		✓	✓
Xanthan gum	✓	✓