What Is Paper Bowl? - Definition
A paper bowl is a disposable round paper food bowl made out of paper and lined or coated with plastic film (PE or PP), Bioplastic film (PLA) or biodegradable water-based barrier coating (Aqueous coating) to prevent the liquid of food from leaking out or soaking through the paper.
And it is widely used for takeaway food services instead of some types of plastic take out containers.
Generally, the disposable paper bowl is used with its matching lid. Different kinds of covers would be used depending on the food you want to serve.
Additionally, the Custom logo can be printed on one side, both sides of the bowl or all over the body of the paper bowl.
Types of Paper Bowl
Paper salad bowl is popularly seen in the restaurant to serve poke food, mixed salad, and rice food.
What we call paper poke bowl is the same as paper salad bowl. The smallest size is a paper bowl of 500ml. It is eco-friendly disposable paper bowl packaging.
Disposable paper soup bowls with lids are the best disposable bowls for hot soup and other forms of hot food.
The soup bowls are a good option for the party. With double pe film coating, the soup cup can be used as an ice cream cup.
Biodegradable paper bowl (PLA coating or Aqueous coating)
Our compostable paper bowl is made from paper with PLA liner or water-based barrier coating.It is perfect for food service and catering.
They are the popular biodegradable alternative to disposable plastic takeaway containers.
Instant noodle paper bowl
An instant noodle paper bowl is designed to serve hot noodles and hot insulated. It can be designed as a double wallpaper structure like a paper cup. It is widely used for instant ramen. So it is called a paper ramen bowl.
Ice cream paper bowl
The ice cream paper bowl is called Paper Ice Cream Cups. It is a single-use ice cream bowl.
Made from paper with double pe lined, it is excellent for ice cream, yoghurt, dessert and other ice food. You can customize your logo on the bowl as well.
What is the Types of Paper Material?
What paper types of disposable bowls are suitable for your business? Are you picking up the best paper bowl packaging? Review the paper material guide in following
Kraft paper:
Kraft paper bowl with lids is most commonly seen in restaurants. It is original and natural kraft looking. Due to its brown color, it is also called a brown kraft paper bowl.
The kraft paper is suitable for a simple logo and color printing.
Black and red color will have the best printing effect on the kraft paper background. The light color and white color are not suggested to be printed on the kraft paper.
White paper:
White paper bowl is very suitable for custom logo printing. It can perfect show your brand image on the bowl.
It can hold full-color printing all over the body of the paper bowl. If you want to store cold food in the freezer, a white paper bowl with a double pe lining is your best choice.
Bamboo Paper:
Bamboo paper is new paper material which is Antibacterial and more durable than kraft and white paper.
The bamboo paper bowl is heat-resistant and moisture-proof, some as kraft and white paper.
As bamboo paper is more sustainable than wood paper, many customers would love to print green marks on the bamboo paper bowl. It can promote their brand consciousness in their end-user.
What is Types of Paper Coating
As we mentioned before, the coating creates a waterproof layer on the paper bowl. It can help the paper container to hold liquid and food without leaking.
It is a necessary part of the paper bowl. How to choose the paper coating? Here is advice
Single Pe coating paper
Single pe coating is most widely used in paper food packaging. It can hold almost every type of food in a paper container except cold ice food.
But the pe is made from plastic. So, it can’t be biodegradable.
PE liner can stand up to 100 Celsius degrees, which is perfect for hot food service and beverages.
By the way, the pe coating can’t be microwaved. You can’t put the pe coating paper product in the microwave for more than 3 minutes.
Double pe coating paper
Double pe coating is suitable for cold ice foodservice like acai and seafood.
The double pe coating will keep the paper container solid without being soft when it is contacting with low-temperature food.
Due to double pe coating, the paper bowl will be stronger and more durable than a single pe coating.
PLA coating paper
PLA coating (Bio-plastic) is a biodegradable coating for the paper bowl. It is eco-friendly and compostable compared to pe lining.
As a popular alternative to pe coating, now it is widely used in paper cups and paper soup bowls.
But PLA lining paper cost is much high than pe lining paper. So, the average price of a PLA coating paper bowl is much higher than a Pe coating paper bowl.
Water-based barrier coating
Water-based barrier coating paper is called plastic-free paper. It is 100% biodegradable and can be decomposed in the home. It can break down in nature within 180 days.
It is the newest solution to plastic waste. Its waterproof is as good as pe lining.
It can support cold food as well as pe coating paper when the paper bowl is double-coated with a water-based barrier coating.