How do traditional food ingredients cope with the new situation?
Food industry is the basis of national livelihood and an important sign reflecting the quality of people's life and the degree of national civilization. Since the eleventh Five-Year Plan, China has focused on the scientific development of food industry, and successively promulgated and implemented a number of measures to constantly improve the product quality and safety level of food industry. At present, China's development has entered a new normal, seeking new, seeking change, seeking breakthrough has become the development philosophy of all walks of life, the food industry is also in one of them, the "baptism" of itself has never stopped.
In recent years, with the rapid development of national economy, earth-shaking changes have taken place in the food industry, and people are more leisurely in the choice of food. Food is officially defined as a variety of finished products and raw materials intended for human consumption or drinking, as well as items traditionally used as both food and medicinal herbs, but not for therapeutic purposes, which are both the basis and products of the food industry.
Food raw materials refer to the raw materials used in food processing, which is a comprehensive concept and has different definitions in different occasions. According to the source, it can be divided into plant raw materials, animal raw materials, mineral raw materials, etc., and according to the category, it can be divided into meat, milk, eggs, grain, etc., and we usually consider the main materials and auxiliary materials (ingredients) divided according to the amount. In fact, it is not rigorous, for example, the amount of common food is generally called the main material, and the amount of health food is often not play a role in the filling, that is, excipients or ingredients, similar and food additives, in fact, we can all be referred to as raw materials.
Improving quality and efficiency is the general trend
Today, with the popularity of innovative raw materials, traditional raw materials seem to have entered a "backwardness" cycle, enterprises and consumers are more concerned about "new", and the attention of traditional raw materials is seriously insufficient, even some to the point of "aversion", we can not say that this is a regression, but an important reflection of the market in optimizing resource allocation. The essence of development is the replacement of the old by the new. Of course, traditional raw materials also have their own advantages, such as rich resources, long application time, high safety, low cost, mature technology, large market volume and other aspects that new raw materials do not have." The 13th Five-Year Plan will transform and upgrade, improve quality and efficiency as the main line to grasp, traditional raw material enterprises should also seize the opportunity, although the price is not the law of enterprise settlement, it is a powerful weapon to deal with the new situation.
We will actively enhance confidence in food safety
Food safety is the core issue of food industry, is also a topic of concern of consumer Z, for a long time the food industry of our country has the characteristics of large, small, scattered and chaotic, consumers in the issue of food safety is not enough confidence, especially after the "Sudan Red" and "Sanlu incident", consumer satisfaction with food safety fall to the lowest point, a serious lack of confidence. With the continuous improvement of the supervision system, the punishment for food safety problems is gradually strengthened. Social problems caused by food safety rarely appear, but the public's doubts about food safety always exist, especially the lack of confidence in the use of food additives. According to the survey data, up to 80% of consumers believe that food safety problems are caused by food additives, which is the resistance faced by traditional raw materials, followed by the extrusion of substitutes, which is inevitable to the encroachment of substitutes on the market of traditional raw materials, but the impact on the market of traditional raw materials is very limited, currently the focus of traditional raw materials is still on the improvement of production process. We shoulder the social responsibility to enhance public confidence in food safety.
"Customized" products are more competitive
The application of food raw materials is mainly concentrated in downstream production enterprises. Raw material manufacturers only focus on the research and development of their own products, so the properties of raw materials are different. In fact, the combination of different raw materials often produces unique gains, so the combination of raw materials is increasingly favored by the market. Traditional food raw materials have a long application time and a large number of products. The advantage of compound products is that they can produce the most suitable products according to the needs of downstream enterprises, save costs for downstream enterprises and open up sales for themselves. It can be said that "customized" products are one of the effective measures for traditional raw materials enterprises to improve their competitiveness.
On the whole, the predicament of traditional raw materials in the new situation is inevitable, but it also stimulates the transformation and upgrading of traditional raw materials enterprises, and further promotes the sustainable development of traditional raw materials. In other words, traditional raw materials have their own value, and the saying "no brine, no tofu" is just the truth.
