Domestic Industry Information

Frying technology in the application of prepared foods

Prepared foods (Prepared foods), also known as convenience prepared foods, refers to agricultural, livestock, aquatic products as raw materials, after appropriate conditioning, properly packaged, in the frozen (18 ℃), refrigerated (7 ℃ or below) or by the gas conditioning and other treatments can be stored at room temperature, trafficking, and can be consumed directly.

Conditioned food is in essence a convenience food, with convenient, fast, delicious flowers, nutrition, safety, and other characteristics. It is recognized as one of the products with development potential in the domestic food industry due to its high value-added products and the demand for localized tastes. In today's fast-paced life, although people have mixed feelings about it, there is no doubt that fried instant noodles, French fries and fruit and vegetable crisps, and other representative bulk fried flavored foods have become indispensable food for people.

(Source: FIEU Food Ingredients Union)

Heavyweight | Health food ingredients catalog added 4 new nutrients, 2 record new ingredients.

The difference between this time and the 2020 version, in addition to increasing the standard basis of raw materials, but also added 4 nutrients, respectively, "calcium" added casein phosphopeptide + calcium; "iron" added ferric iron hemoglobin chloride. "Vitamin K" added Vitamin K2 (synthesized method) and Docosahexaenoic Acid (DHA).

In this announcement, two new ingredients are added to the catalog of health food ingredients, namely whey protein and soybean isolate protein, and the technical requirements of the ingredients are also announced.

(Source: Phytobridge)

Domestic Synthetic Biology Track Insights in H1 2023

As a windfall in recent years, synthetic biology has gained attention from capital and multiple markets in 2022. For the nutrition and health industry, synthetic biology technology is also gradually penetrating, so in the first half of 2023 in the nutrition and health industry, what are the progress of synthetic biology?

(1) Huaxi Bio Launches Ultrapure Ergothioneine

(2) Ruoxi Bio's HMO production line was officially delivered.

(3) Huaxi Bio establishes synthetic biology fund

(4) Eukon Pharma and Jiangsu Hafei signed a strategic framework agreement on synthetic biology project

(5) Sanyuan Bio produces Tagatose using synthetic biology

(Source: Phytobridge)

Scientific Consensus on Breast Milk Oligosaccharides (HMOs) Officially Released

On June 27, the Chinese Society of Food Science and Technology (CSFT) reported that the Scientific Consensus on Breastmilk Oligosaccharides (HMOs), which was formed by organizing experts in the fields of food science, clinical medicine, biofermentation, food nutrition, and representatives from the industrial sector, to systematically summarize and sort out the nutritional value, safety, and application and management of HMOs in foreign countries, has been officially released in the Chinese Journal of Food Science and China Knowledge Network (CJFN). The scientific consensus on HMOs has been published in the Chinese Journal of Food Science and the China Knowledge Network.

(Source: Chinese Society of Food Science and Technology)

Sugar-free ready-to-drink tea market share is concentrated in the head.

Ready-to-drink tea has gradually become an important part of the beverage market as a more lifestyle-oriented and convenient tea-drinking option. Meanwhile, as consumers are more concerned about health, sugar-free ready-to-drink tea is gradually accepted by more consumers and widely respected.

In the Shanghai sugar-free ready-to-drink tea market, Suntory occupied the first position in its core market of Shanghai, and the performance of other brands was not inferior, with Oriental Tree Leaf significantly increasing its market share in Shanghai, narrowing the gap with Suntory. Nongfushanquan's main product, Oriental Tree Leaf Jasmine Tea Original Flavor 500ml, saw a significant increase in its rollout rate in FY23. Tea Lane King and D'Yido competed for the third position, and multi-brand emerged to the fifth position. Shanghai's unsweetened ready-to-drink tea market is undergoing a transformation from Suntory-led to multi-brand competition.

(Source: FoodTalks)