Food preservation and its transportation around the world have benefited wide sections of society, including farmers, food industries, and especially consumers, who seldom had the chance to experience food products from around the world in the past. In conjunction with this, it has also brought a lot of challenges to researchers, economists, social workers, cleaners, shopkeepers, and the environment due to the inverse proportionality relation between their required lifetime and required usage period. Many types of researches are being conducted to find a balance between the two. Some notable advancements in this effort are the effective usage of natural fibers and their composites in the production of food packaging materials. This review paper gives an overview of the effect of natural fiber in food packaging films. © 2023 WILEY-VCH GmbH. All rights reserved.