One-week Food Observation: Exploring Multidimensional Development Direction

In the era of consumer upgrading, the food industry has undergone unprecedented changes and transformation. Pursuing nature, health, green and convenience has become a new direction of food industry. Innovations in food materials, taste, packaging and processing technology are bringing new food experience. What are the new trends and trends in the future industrial development? How can consumers avoid minefields while pursuing quality consumption? In order to help netizens observe the essence of food industry through phenomena, Xinhua Food Channel specially launched the column "Food Watch for a Week", hoping to sort out industry news, analyze and interpret industrial phenomena, provide the most valuable information and serve people's lives. Recently, the 100th National Sugar and Wine Festival was held in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, which had a positive impact on the food industry. This week (March 25-29), agricultural prices fluctuated slightly. According to the monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Areas, the wholesale price 200 index of agricultural products was 116.98 on March 28, and the wholesale price 200 index of vegetable basket products was 119.45. The average prices of pork, beef, mutton and eggs in the wholesale market of agricultural products in China were 20.13 yuan/kg, 60.75 yuan/kg, 60.21 yuan/kg of mutton and 7.33 yuan/kg of eggs, with the focus on 28 vegetables and 7 fruits. The average price is 4.81 yuan/kg and 6.09 yuan/kg, respectively. It is worth noting that with the advent of spring, the temperature gradually rose, the price of mutton slightly decreased, and the price is basically stable. It is understood that mutton is a warm tonic food in the consumer's impression. During the Spring Festival, the supply of mutton was tight and the sales volume was large, which led to a slight rise in price. Recently, the demand for mutton has declined, and the price has been affected accordingly. Last week, the 100th Spring National Sugar and Wine Festival was held in Chengdu. Many well-known domestic liquor brands gathered and attracted thousands of businessmen. In addition to the traditional wine, wine and international spirits, food and beverage, condiments, food packaging, food machinery six exhibition areas, the venue also set up 11 Small-scale special zones, such as imported food, chain franchise, leisure food, agricultural products, forest food, international beer, wine, chafing dish, to meet the needs of personalized and differentiated customers in the vertical field of subdivision. It was well received by the participants and played a positive role in promoting the development of the food industry.

With the transformation of mass consumption thinking and the introduction of new products, the food and catering industry is developing in the direction of multi-scene, multi-dimension and multi-demand, and is facing the challenge of innovation and upgrading for a long time. How to stand out among many brands, create "explosive" products and win the consumer market? Many operators think that cross-border development is a good idea. Recently, a drinking water company has developed and introduced plant yoghurt across borders to provide consumers with lactose intolerance or other health problems with purchase options, which has become one of the cases of cross-border product transformation. A leisure food brand and beauty makeup brand cooperate to launch cross boundary mask products, attracting young consumers' attention. In addition, there are also cases of milk tea brands trying to enter the coffee field. In the process of cross-border trial, only innovative ideas are not enough. Businessmen need to understand the target consumer groups of cross-border products in depth, and on this basis, expand the differences between cross-border products and similar products, find a breakthrough in the consumer market, and form a long-term development strategy. Cross-border products enhance the industry's richness to a certain extent, but fundamentally they also need to ensure the most basic product quality issues. Recently, the Department of Accreditation, Inspection and Supervision convened a seminar on the management of food re-inspection agencies in Beijing. The seminar discussed the specific work of publishing the list of the fourth batch of food re-inspection agencies and the management ideas of food re-inspection agencies. It is helpful to further improve the system construction and strengthen the management of food re-inspection agencies. In order to safeguard the people's dietary safety and the legitimate rights and interests of consumers, the market supervision department of Hebei Province has recently organized a series of special actions to control food safety. Up to now, 180 food and edible agricultural products centralized trading markets in Hebei Province have reached the Standard of renovation and upgrading. A total of 55 provincial "Rest assured meat and vegetable demonstration supermarkets" have been established, and 107 food safety blocks have been built to realize the full coverage of "bright kitchen stoves" by certified catering service units.

The content of food field is complex, so the supervision and management of food quality by relevant departments have never been lax. Recently, the General Administration of Market Supervision has organized sampling inspection of 2442 batches of samples of 11 kinds of food, including beverages, health food, food processed products, vegetable products, canned products, Starch and starch products, tea and related products, frozen food, sugar, confectionery products and edible agricultural products. Among them, 2418 batches of qualified samples and 24 batches of unqualified samples were sampled, and unqualified food was related to residues of agricultural and veterinary drugs. Retention, heavy metals, Food Additives and other indicators. The General Administration of Market Supervision has instructed the relevant provincial market supervision departments to investigate and deal with the unqualified products found in the sampling inspection according to law. When it comes to food additives, many consumers will see the shadow of sorbic acid in the ingredient table of processed foods. So, sorbic acid is a kind of additive, is it harmful to human body? It is known that sorbic acid is a highly effective and safe preservative recommended by FAO and WHO, which has inhibitory effects on yeasts, fungi and many fungi.