China's vegetable paper production market has broad prospects

Edible packaging is one of the important development directions of modern food packaging, especially health food packaging. Although China's packaging industry has recognized the important environmental and economic value of such packaging, and its great market potential, but due to the limited technology and equipment, this packaging product is still very rare, the new packaging materials of the process and equipment There are fewer studies.

There are two types of edible paper abroad. One is based on vegetables as the main raw material, the vegetables beaten, dried after molding; the other is the refinement of starch, sugar, and then add other food additives, and adopt similar methods to the papermaking process. From the perspective of application and development prospects, green products based on vegetables have more potential for development.

Vegetable paper was first developed by Japan and was also called paper dish. The common characteristic of vegetables and foods is rich in dietary fiber, multi-vitamins and minerals, among which dietary fiber is quite stable in processing and production. Therefore, the nutritional loss of processed vegetable paper products is very small, and the product moisture content is small (about 10%). Easy to transport and store. This not only increases the added value of vegetables but, more importantly, solves the problem of vegetables that are perishable and difficult to store.

At present, only Japan has achieved large-scale production of vegetable paper, its processing technology and equipment has entered the fourth generation, the highest daily output of up to 30,000 per production line. Japan's Sakai Institute of Physical Chemistry has successfully extracted protein and lipid from bean dregs to make pure dietary fiber, which is then processed into edible paper. Others include fruit paper, vegetable paper and seaweed paper.

As far as the production process is concerned, there are mainly two methods. The first method is a compression molding method in which the slurry is laid flat on a forming plate and is subjected to two baking moldings. Another method is a roll forming method, that is, the slurry is directly pressed into a shape via two counter-rotating press rolls, and is dried after being sliced ​​to obtain a finished product. Due to the great potential of the market, countries are actively conducting research on vegetable paper and its products.

Edible paper is a research hotspot not only in Japan but also globally. Its products are mainly used by the United Nations for disaster relief and US military operations. It can also be used in many fields such as convenience food and edible packaging.

It can be predicted that this new type of convenience food will have great market potential.

In China, the research on vegetable paper products began several years ago. The relevant institutions of higher education, research institutions, and enterprises and institutions have already done a lot of work in this area. Based on foreign research, the process and molding The research of equipment has put forward many new ideas and methods. However, the overall level of research is still not high, especially research is limited to the design of process tests and equipment, but did not really take into account all aspects of industrial production, therefore, the process of industrialization of vegetable paper has been lagging behind in our country.

Recently, there have been many media reports that Chinese food products have come out, but small-scale, workshop-style production simply cannot drive the development of the industry.

At present, the state gives great support to the development of deep processing of agricultural and sideline products. At this opportunity, various research units and enterprises are also actively preparing to explore a new path for the production of vegetable paper.

Vegetable paper products have high nutritional value, are easy to store and transport, and are good snack foods and advanced food packaging materials, there must be a great market demand. Once the research and development of vegetable paper industry form an industrial scale, it will certainly have a major impact on the development of healthy food in China.

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