Do not overheat canned food or lose nutrients.

 

The survey shows that 80% of consumers prefer authentic food.

 

Canned food is the first of many Chinese food products to enter the international market, product quality and international standards of a commodity. Canned food has a wide variety of categories, including meat, poultry, aquatic products, fruits, vegetables and other categories, and then downward according to the classification of food is numerous. At present, China has become one of the world's leading canning producers and exporters, with an annual export volume of more than 3 billion US dollars. In recent years, with the demand of domestic and international market, the canned industry has shown a steady and steady growth.

 

Pang Qianying, intern Yang Wenyu, new express reporter

 

Domestic canned products are mainly exported to Japan, Europe and the United States.

 

At present, Fujian, Zhejiang, Xinjiang, Shandong and Hunan are the top five canned food producing provinces in China. These provinces have a good industrial base and many enterprises, and their export accounts for 64% of all canned food exports in China. Among them, the main producing areas of canned fish are Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang, Liaoning and other coastal areas; the main producing areas of canned citrus are Zhejiang and Hunan; the main producing areas of canned meat are Shanghai, Fujian and Sichuan; the main producing areas of canned peach are Hebei; the main producing areas of canned mushrooms and asparagus are Fujian, Shandong and Yunnan; Xinjiang is the main producing area of the paste, and the main canned shoots are Zhejiang, Fujian and Jiangxi.

 

China's canning industry is a typical export-oriented industry, has maintained a relatively rapid development rate, including mushroom cans, canned tomato paste, canned citrus fruits and canned fish canned products are China's canned industry exports of the fist products, products in the international market has long enjoyed a high reputation. Although the export market of canned food varies greatly according to the types of canned food, Japan, the United States and Europe are still the main export markets of canned food in China. The top five countries are the United States, Japan, Russia, Germany and the West. They accounted for about half of China's exported canned food.

 

The treatment of canned food at home and abroad is different.

 

Canned food is regarded as "junk food" and not popular in China. Because consumers abroad have a mature understanding of canned food, canned food is the most common "nutritious and delicious" food in Europe and America. According to statistics, the average annual consumption of canned goods in the United States is about 90 kg, about 50 kg in Western Europe, 23 kg in Japan and only 1 kg in China. For foreign consumers, canned food is the best alternative to the kitchen during busy working days, and canned food is a good way to eat rare and seasonal ingredients. For Europeans, the season for some vegetables is short, such as white asparagus, which is picked at the right time and canned so that they can be eaten even out of season. It can be said that canned food has become the most common consumption habit of families in Europe and America.

 

Canned food has a history of 200 years in China. It is the most important export product of the food industry. There are more than 140 countries and regions exporting canned food every year. From January to August, 2014, the cumulative export delivery value of canned food increased by 12.92% year on year. As a traditional processing industry of agricultural and sideline products in China, the canning industry has been showing a strong momentum in foreign trade exports, and the Chinese canning industry is almost monopolized in the international market. However, compared with the boom in foreign markets, canned food is not popular in the domestic market, so it has always been a heavy export light domestic sales situation. On the one hand, the abundant fresh food directly participated in the market share, but at the same time, due to frequent food safety problems in recent years, consumers'awareness of food safety improved, canned food and food additives are easy to be linked, further affecting the consumption of canned food in China.

 

There are new standards to follow this month.

 

It is understood that in May this year, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology approved 1208 industry standards, of which 28 canned products standards were revised to the 2014 edition and formally implemented on October 1. In addition, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued the latest QB/T 4706-2014 product standard for canned edible fungi in the list of 676 industry standards number, name, main contents and so on (Bulletin No. 47), which was put into effect on November 1. Due to the changes in the old and new standard numbers during the revision process, that is to say, quite a number of canning enterprises need to change the packaging labels.

 

At the annual meeting of the China Canning Industry Association in 2013, Liang Zhongkang, executive vice chairman of the China Canning Industry Association, made the following analysis on the current situation of the industry: First, export growth has declined, entering a negative growth era. Two, domestic growth is slowing down, and the market is facing bottlenecks. Three, the pressure of rising costs will affect the long run. Four, the weak agricultural foundation and the lag of the mode become obstacles to development. Five, the industry is scattered and enterprises are fighting for themselves, and the industry is hard to form a resultant force. Thus it can be seen that the canning industry, as an agricultural product processing industry, is now facing various pressures of international competition, technological progress and industrial cooperation.

 

In addition to the above problems, there are enterprises in order to reduce costs, regardless of violation of food safety standards, canned food additives added to the standard, thus affecting the image of the entire canned industry and brand building. Li Yizhou, Deputy Secretary-General of China Brand Marketing Association, said that as long as different industries achieve the common ground of successful brand building, the marketing of their products will have a certain degree.