PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a novel food packaging technology capable of dramatically enhancing performance of antibacterial, mildew, deodorization or the like, largely extending effective periods thereof and markedly enhancing performance of holding freshness of foods.SOLUTION: There are provided: a coating for food packaging by mixing a proper amount of a fixing agent of at least one of a viscosity material and a thickener, water and ethyl alcohol with a polyphenol starch saccharide mixture P obtained by mixing a starch saccharide of one of trehalose (registered trademark) and cyclodextrin with polyphenol, at least one kind of PEX-α, PEX-αs, PEX-γc, PEX-β, PEX-δ (all of the are trade name) in unsaturated 7-membered cyclic compound (monocyclic monoterpene); and a food packaging container with a sterilization coating film arranged by fixing a coating liquid containing the coating for food packaging as a main component on a part or all of an inner wall of a container body contactably facing foods to
