"Seven Innovative Trends in China's Convenience Food Industry in 2021-2022" was 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
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At the "22nd China Convenience Food Conference" held by the Chinese Society of Food Science and Technology on November 30, 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's convenience food industry, under the guidance of the "big food view", around the basic attributes of convenience food "healthy, delicious, convenient and environmentally friendly", actively practiced industry innovation, the whole industry showed the overall characteristics of "technology upgrading series, diversified raw material development, and characteristic flavor nationalization", and made important progress
in continuously cracking the common key technologies in the development of the industry.

Trend 1: Make inward efforts to improve the quality of development according to scientific and technological innovation

Enhancing the core competitiveness of the industry based on scientific and technological innovation is the general trend
of industry development in 2021-2022.
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 concept, leading the industry's in-depth exploration of natural ingredients

Under the guidance of the big food concept, 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 the road of health combining "reduction" and "plus" of convenience food

Taking 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 "addition" 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 realize the industrial reproduction of catering flavors

Empower instant noodles and hanging noodles with pre-made dishes, and upgrade single staples 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, and the rich and colorful local cuisine constitutes the food customs
that have nourished Chinese thousand years of unchanged.
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, convenient food "internal and external"

The innovation of convenience food is not only reflected in technology, but also in the appearance of the 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 to support the efficiency and energy saving of convenience food

High speed, high efficiency, energy saving and stability have become the new anchor points
for 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-to-child roller cutting and packing machine have made local breakthroughs
in 2021-2022 through equipment innovation.
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.

Preliminary review: Li Song Responsible editor: Zhang Jiazhen Review: Peng Zonglu