We paid a visit on shanghai FIC on Mar 20-22 ,2024 in the hope to match the trend of ingredients of china .We met many friends in the line of concentrates ,juice, pulp,strach Sweeteners ,colorants,bleaching, and so on .
At FIC 2023, you can find that after three years of catalysis by the epidemic, health is becoming a holistic concept, and the closely related health food and beverage industry has gradually ushered in a golden period of development. Although self-disciplined and scientific health care is not easy .However, easy, flexible and multi-scenario self-care is emerging, such as increasing the variety of food, reducing salt and sugar intake, increasing plant-based ingredients, low-alcohol or non-alcoholic beverages and other new choices.It can be seen that consumers in the post-epidemic era have begun to actively try to achieve better selves by optimizing their dietary structure in terms of health.
We can see from the whole exhibition , new tech-new products come out a lot ,but still follow the trend of year 2023 ,mostly in the range of Yeast protein, sports probiotics, HMO, isomerized lactose, water-soluble lutein, berry extracts,coffee /cocoa /tea .
@ Reducing salt and sugar intake
This a tendency to use isomerized lactose to help people in healthy sugar intake.
Isomalt is obtained by the sucrose through the enzymatic conversion and hydrogenation two step process.it is the mixture of two isomers,GPM and GPS.Because isomalt has low moisture absorption,high hear tolerance,it has unique advantage in application of hard candy,especially star lollipop,nut-substitutable.
Isomalt is mainly extracted from sucrose. Its sweetness and calories are half of sucrose. Compared with other sugar alcohols such as xylitol and erythritol, the human body has a larger tolerance.In 2008, our government approved isomalt as a new food ingredient.As a natural tooth-protecting sweetener, isomalt is added to many tooth-protecting products and children’s snacks. Most chinese brand lollipops are all made of isomalt. Isomalt is used as raw material and is claimed to be tooth-friendly and less likely to cause tooth decay.
@increasing plant-based ingredients
The booming export market of fruit and vegetable concentrates,pulp and juices are mainly due to our rich fruit and vegetable resources.With the continuous improvement of living standards and the improvement of fruit and vegetable juice production technology, the production and consumption of fruit and vegetable juices will continue to maintain a strong growth momentum.
There are five processing ranges, juice concentrate, IQF berry, juice powder, juice drink, anthocyanin and related extract etc which cover both tropical fruits and north berries.
As our fruit and vegetable juice market becomes increasingly internationalized, concentrated fruit and vegetable juice processing has also become an investment hotspot. Some new flavors and adding new ingredients have become the key to attract consumers.In recent years, functional fruits that are rich in nutrients and have obvious antioxidant effects on the human body have been sought after by the beverage industry.
@Cocoa
@Coffee
All for the conclusion , FIC converge so many ingredients in food,supplement ,healthcare ,cosmetic both in raw material and OEM service . We enjoy the trip and keep the net with partners in healthy ingredients .
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