Snack food from growth to maturity

Snacks refer to snacks other than the main meal, also known as the third meal.

Wang Haining, executive chairman of the Snack Food Professional Committee of the China Non-staple Food Circulation Association, said that in recent years, China's snack food industry has developed rapidly, and the market size has shown a rapid upward trend

Clarify product terminology

This year, the Standards and Technology Department of the State Administration for Market Regulation has publicly solicited opinions on 18 recommended national standards (drafts for approval) on the quality of lotus root starch, canned water chestnuts (horseshoe) quality, and snack food terminology

"Snack Food Terminology" (draft for approval) has made a unified and clear definition of the names, processing and production process terms of various types of snack foods, providing basic compliance for producers and consumers, and is conducive to promoting the healthy and rapid development of the snack food industry.

According to the published "Snack Food Terminology" (draft for approval), this standard applies to the production, circulation, sales, teaching, scientific research and other related fields of snack food

Product terms in "Snack Food Terminology" include puffed food, jelly, candied fruit, candy, nuts and seeds, biscuits, recreational dried fruit and vegetable products, recreational potato food, recreational aquatic products, recreational meat products, recreational bean products, recreational There are 16 edible mushroom products, leisure dairy products, leisure egg products, leisure frozen drinks, and leisure pastries

Diversification is becoming the trend

In the Wumart supermarket on Yuetan South Street, Xicheng District, Beijing, the shelves are full of snack foods such as potato chips, shrimp sticks, snow cakes, preserved fruits, plums, and pine nuts

Wang Haining analyzed that in recent years, the snack food market has gradually developed towards high-end, innovation and branding.

Taking the elderly as an example, as of 2021, China's population aged 60 and above will reach 267 million, and the snack food market for this huge segment has huge potential

"Snack food companies should conduct in-depth research on consumers' dietary patterns and eating habits, and grasp the gradual upgrading trend of residents' daily food consumption from eating well and eating well to eating healthy

Pay attention to safety issues

Wang Chaohui, an expert member of the Standardization Inspection and Testing Professional Committee of the China Nutrition and Health Food Association and a doctor from the Beijing Institute of Product Quality Supervision and Inspection, said that in recent years, in sampling inspections by market supervision departments at all levels, cases of unqualified samples of various types of snack food have occurred from time to time.

Wang Haining said that enterprises should fully understand the importance of food safety and regard food safety as the lifeline and core competitiveness of enterprises

　　Chaohui reminded consumers that when purchasing snack foods, they should pay attention to whether the outer packaging of the products is in good condition, and try not to buy exposed products that are easily contaminated

　　(Source: China Consumer News)

　　"China Food News" (May 10, 2022 Edition 07)

　　(Editor in charge: Zhu Meiqiao)