Starch with plasticizer are very flexible and after several days they stabilize and become more

resistant to breakage by manual traction (Arrieta and Palencia, 2016). The addition of sorbitol to
"sugar palm" starch films raised the thermal degradation temperature to higher values, which
increased the thermal stability of sorbitol films more than those in which glycerol was used
(Sanyang et al. , 2015a). When cellulose derived from this plant was used, in a mixture of 1 to 10%
based on starch as a reinforcing material (composite films and with a combination of glycerol and
sorbitol in a 1: 1 ratio), an increase in tensile strength and Young's modulus, as well as, decrease in
elongation at break was observed; and the addition of 1% cellulose improved the water vapor
permeability of composite films by 63.53% compared to films without cellulose (Sanyang et al.,
2016b). As previously commented, a decrease in tensile strength and an increase in elongation
occurs when the concentration of the plasticizer is increased; with the inclusion of cellulose, the
opposite happened. In films, to which starch-based carboxymethylcellulose was added in
concentrations of 5, 10, 15 and 20% (w / w), the water vapor permeability values decreased in all
compared to a film used as a control ( without carboxymethylcellulose), and the lowest value was
obtained with a concentration of 15% (p / p); and in relation to tensile strength, the increase was
proportional to the increase in concentration (Ghanbarzadeh et al., 2011). In films based on starch
/ polyvinyl alcohol mixtures with concentrations of 9, 17, 25 and 30% starch, and using glycerol as
a plasticizer, Râpă et al. (2014) observed that increasing the amount of starch in the mixture
decreases the tensile strength and elongation at break. The behavior of the formation of films
using starch of low and high content of amylose (in mixture with a polyol) was studied by Muscat
et al. (2012); These authors used glycerol and xylitol as plasticizers individually and in combination
(1: 1) at different concentrations. High amylose starch films exhibited higher glass transition
temperature, tensile strength, modulus of elasticity, and lower elongation at break than low
amylose content films. Corn starch with 25% amylose and corn starch with high amylose content
(80%) were used as materials to prepare starch / polyvinyl alcohol films (using glycerol) in order to
study the effects of amylose contents on mechanical properties and water resistance. Films with
high amylose content had higher tensile strength and elongation at break (in general, better
mechanical properties) and lower water absorption, water solubility and permeability to water
vapor (in general, higher resistance to water). than lower amylose starch films. The strong
intermolecular interaction that forms between high amylose starch and polyvinyl alcohol can
improve properties (Liu et al., 2016). A factor that affects the mechanical and microstructural
properties of starch-based films is aging (defined as storage time). Apriyana et al. (2016) observed
in films stored for 1, 4 and 8 weeks, that the moisture content and solubility initially increased
after 1 week and decreased after 4, regardless of the glycerol concentration used (20, 30, 40, 50
%), as well as that, the crystallinity tends to decrease after 8 weeks of storage.