Seven innovation trends in China's convenience food industry released

In the new era, China's convenience food industry closely focuses on the national strategic needs, makes efforts in health and nutrition, and is committed to meeting people's increasingly diversified food needs, and the innovation iteration of the whole industry is accelerating
.
At the 22nd China Convenience Food Conference held by the Chinese Society of Food Science and Technology recently, Sun Baoguo, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, chairman of the Chinese Society of Food Science and Technology, and president of Beijing Technology and Business University, released the "Seven Innovative Trends of China's Convenience Food Industry in 2021-2022"
on behalf of the Chinese Society of Food Science and Technology.

The Chinese Society of Food Science and Technology has organized industry experts to analyze the innovation achievements of the convenience food industry for many years, and formed an annual innovation trend in the form of expert consensus to help the healthy and sustainable development
of the industry.
Experts unanimously believe that this year, under the guidance of the "big food view", the convenience food industry has actively practiced industry innovation around the basic attributes of convenience food "healthy, delicious, convenient and environmentally friendly", and the whole industry has presented the overall characteristics of "technological upgrading series, diversified raw material development, and nationalization of characteristic flavors", and has made important progress
in continuously cracking the common key technologies in the development of the industry.

Trend 1: Inward Efforts, Relying on Scientific and Technological Innovation to Improve the Quality of Development Relying on scientific and technological innovation to enhance the core competitiveness of the industry is the general trend
of industry development from 2021 to 2022.
Through continuous original research and development, the convenience food industry improves the development quality of the industry with the accumulation of scientific and technological strength and the cracking of common key technologies, and shows its strength
in adversity.

Trend 2: Big Food View, Leading the Industry to Dig Deep into Natural Ingredients Under the guidance of Big Food View, the convenience food industry actively expands the field of food ingredients and seeks new food resources
from forests, rivers, lakes and seas.
Based on local characteristic food resources, we deeply excavate all kinds of ingredients and innovatively apply them in product research and development, forming a pattern
of a hundred flowers.

Trend 3: Two-wheel drive, open a healthy road of combining "reduction" and "plus" of convenience food With national health as the goal and increasing the high-value application of healthy ingredients, the industry has formed the main square of whole grain food, using science and technology to achieve the "plus" of food nutrition and health value, and starting the pace
of "reduction" with product innovation of non-fried and low-salt seasoning packages with optimized structure.
Form a two-wheel drive
combining "minus" and "plus" in the whole industry.

Trend 4: Cross-border integration to achieve industrial reproduction of catering flavor Empower instant noodles and hanging noodles with pre-made dishes, and upgrade single staple food to full meals; Through cross-border cooperation, casual and fashion elements are integrated into traditional products of freezing and refrigeration, helping to standardize
catering and cooking.
The application scenarios of expanding products are closely integrated
with the needs of family kitchens in the catering industry.

Trend 5: Regional characteristics, showing the cultural confidence of Chinese food Food is the carrier of culture, rich and colorful local cuisine, constitute a food custom
that has nourished Chinese thousand years.
Authentically restore and reproduce local delicacies and flavored snacks, and find the deliciousness
of your hometown without leaving home.
Convenience food demonstrates cultural confidence
in its rich, diverse and refined food form.

Trend 6: Improving appearance, convenience food "both inside and outside" The innovation of convenience food is not only reflected in technology, but also in the appearance design is more beautiful and environmentally friendly
.
By changing the level of the cup lid, take the road of green development; Through the organic combination of traditional food and current trends, the packaging of convenience foods is fashionable and beautiful to release youthful vitality
.
Convenience food has achieved quality improvement
of "both internal and external repair".

Trend 7: Equipment innovation, support convenient food efficiency, energy saving High speed, high efficiency, energy saving and stability have become the new anchor points
of mechanical equipment innovation.
The automatic non-fried steamed noodle production line, the new freeze-dried noodle equipment, the ball continuous vacuum dough machine and the mother-daughter roller cutting and packing machine have made local breakthroughs
in the neck problems of convenience foods through equipment innovation in 2021-2022.
The continuous and automated production equipment of cooked fresh noodles, hand-rolled noodles and other products with catering advantages, using modular design and flexible technology imitating manual production, forward-looking docking the needs of kitchenization, and has become a support point
for the cross-border integration of the food industry for the catering industry.

China Food News(Version 02, 08 December 2022)

(Responsible editor: Luo Chen).