en Nutrition Nutrition پژوهشي Research <strong>Background and Objectives: </strong>Increased environmental concerns about synthetic packaging have promoted developments of novel, environmentally-friendly edible films. In the present study, the quality parameters of chicken egg coated with pectin or pectin incorporated cinnamon hydrosol was assessed.<br> <strong>Materials and Methods: </strong>Egg chicken were coated with pectin and pectin prepared with cinnamon hydrosol and quality indicators (weight loss, yolk index, albumen pH and Haugh unit were assessed during storage at 30 &ordm;C. Microbiological analysis of <em>Salmonella</em>, <em>Escherichia coli</em> and <em>Staphylococcus aureus</em> and the total microbial count were carried out.<br> <strong>Results: </strong>Results showed that coating eggs with both pectin and cinnamon hydrosol included pectin caused lower weight loss during storage, compared to control eggs (<em>P</em> ˂ 0.01). A Higher Haugh unit and yolk index were observed in coated eggs compared to control eggs. <em>Scanning electron microscopy</em> exhibited structural homogeneity of hydrosol included pectin coat. The microbiological analysis showed that the total plate count of all samples at Week 1 of storage was zero. In uncoated eggs, the total plate count reached to 3 CFU ml^-1 at Week 6 of storage. The total plate count of two coated eggs was zero all over the storage time period. Three bacterial (<em>Salmonella</em>, <em>E. coil</em> and <em>S. aureus</em>) count included zero values from Week 1 to Week 6 of storage for all samples.<br> <strong>Conclusions: </strong>Coating of eggs with pectin especially pectin included cinnamon hydrosol resulted in better shelf life of eggs during 6 weeks of storage.<br> &nbsp; Cinnamomum verum, Chicken egg, Coating, Hydrosol, Pectin 39 45 http://nfsr.sbmu.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-690-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Zohreh Didar z_didar57@yahoo.com 10031947532846003831 10031947532846003831 Yes Department of Food Science and Technology, Neyshabur Branch, Islamic Azad University, Neyshabur, Iran