In recent years, with the online shopping, the internet of Things, new retail, consumer upgrades, business-to-business platform and other ideas, as well as Gen Y to 90, after 00, the mainstream consumer shift to the Chinese food and beverage industry into the industrial restructuring, food market presents a diversified development trend.
So, take a look at four trends in the food industry and the application of related food equipment!
Personalized Food Packaging At present, young consumers become the main force, they are the pursuit of novelty packaging, personality, innovation, enterprises need to break the thinking framework of innovative food packaging, to try to revitalize the traditional food category, such as personalized custom candy and custom packaging, which requires different from the market personalized products, personalized packaging truly unique
, there is no similarity between the different packages. On the market, there are enterprises to introduce fully automated intelligent packaging production lines, the use of digital printing presses, inkjet equipment, etc., can be mass production, rather than as a traditional device label or a simple pattern, mechanical printing, which can be through a strong digital printing technology to achieve one-to-one customer customization,
Can complete 100 kinds of leisure food at the same time online customization, to meet consumer demand for personalized products.
Ocean Food brings new flavours As consumers increasingly focus on ingredients, healthy, nutritious foods become a topic of concern to them. At the same time, marine food gradually moved from coastal areas to inland consumers ' tables. Products such as kelp, seaweed, red seaweed, and crony dishes have emerged in the growing food and beverage category, adding new nutrients and umami to snacks and dietary ingredients.
According to relevant data, from 2012 to 2017, the number of new products containing marine vegetables in the annual compound growth rate reached 18%. Industry insiders said that seafood is rich in a variety of nutrients, can be used as a substitute for traditional meat products, and sea salt is also widely used in food and beverage product, 2013 years later, food and beverage added sea salt increased by 103%, visible, all marine raw materials related products are gaining a greater advantage, and capture consumer ' Hearts '. It is understood that there is a small package of enterprises introduced by the fusion of seafood cheese, but also wrapped in a layer of natural deep-sea surimi, cheese surface of the fish is made from fresh marine fish through the hammer, seasoning, stirring, calendering, drying, not only preserved the nutrition and flavor of marine fish, but also the creation of cheese and fish fusion, fresh fragrant mellow,
Consumer's favorite. Although the sea food has appeared in people's diet, but relatively still need to use advanced technology, technology to be eaten after processing.
And if the sea food made into casual snacks, may be able to attract more young consumers, this will be a development direction of enterprises.
Food packaging advocates sustainable recycling With growing awareness of food waste and packaging pollution, food companies are starting to develop sustainable, recycling-based packaging solutions. The author learned that nearly 1/3 of the global food and beverage products released last year have been designed to provide sustainable packaging concepts such as biodegradable or compostable.
In addition, plant-based dairy substitutes are considered sustainable products compared to traditional milk and yogurt. It is learnt that a food and beverage company committed to phasing out plastic straws before 2020, instead of sipping on the lid of the cup. Although the new lid is heavier, the larger plastic may be recycled through the factory. There is also a series of transparent vinyl polymers produced by the company that can be dissolved in water and can be safely used to store food without much effect on odor, texture or taste.
And some in Sweden have devised a concept of ' food packaging ', which is made with a wax-coated caramel, a bottle that splits like an egg to release oil, and a wax shell that can be composted.
Light snacks, Mini meal With the continuous improvement of people's living standards, travel is more and more people's favorite, for the convenience of people in the outdoor dining, many food enterprises launched a large number of health ingredients for the characteristics of convenient food, such as convenient hot pot, convenient rice noodles, convenient drinks, and small packaging and snacks are no longer just casual snacks patent,
and become a mini meal that consumers can enjoy all day long. Today, people's lives are getting busier, with little or no time to sit down, eat a meal or a regular dinner, which also provides the market for light, mini snacks.
According to the survey data, last year released new meat snacks accounted for more than 5% of global snacks, snacks in the form of fruit and vegetable products in the average annual rate of 12% growth.