Xylito The main category
At present, the foreign sugar-free candy mainly to sugar-free chewing gum and sugar-free hard candy mostly, and have shown a rapid development trend. At the same time, many industry experts optimistic about the prospects for the development of sugar-free candy, and predict the development of sugar-free candy industry is one of the faster development of the category. The market potential of sugar-free confectionery is enormous because of the large number of consumers' avoidance of obesity and the control of intake of sugar in certain diseases, and the sugar-free candy itself has the advantage of no cavities and low calorie.
To chewing gum, for example, in the Nordic countries, add xylitol sugar-free chewing gum accounted for more than 80% of the total content of chewing gum, while China's sugar-free chewing gum only less than half of the overall market, the brand mainly Lotte, Wrigley benefits, Good friend of the Lord. With the Rakuten, benefits of innovation, and the Meiji, Mantis's continuous force, the future of this market will show a rapid development trend. According to statistics, in recent years, the development trend of xylitol and other sugar alcohols is good, including xylitol chewing gum, including sugar-free candy market will continue to hot.
Fresh and refreshing is the most sought after sugar-free candy characteristics. And to give sugar-free candy this feature is the great hero is xylitol. The taste of xylitol refreshing can be achieved by highlighting the proportions of the various sugar alcohols used in the product formulation. Xylitol is almost 10 times larger than the dissolved heat of sucrose, and when xylitol dissolves, it absorbs a lot of heat, causing the surrounding medium to produce a low temperature. In a variety of food by adding xylitol crystal after eating will feel cool, there are mint, spearmanship and other food flavor, is the truth.
Sugar-free candy, is not easy to cause dental caries made of candy, calories than conventional candy to reduce more than 1/3, while the other nutrients the same. Due to low heat, can avoid excessive intake of sugar and lead to obesity. In addition, sugar-free candy mainly after consumption of sugar without affecting the sweetener rather than sucrose, so particularly suitable for coronary heart disease, diabetes and other people eat, is the international community in recent years the prevalence of a healthy food. The colorants industry is striving to expand its application and market capacity
Zhang Hui, Deputy Secretary-General of China Association of Food Additives and Ingredients Association of China's Food Additives and Ingredients Association, pointed out that in the past year, the development of the colorants industry has shown a steady growth in the new normal state situation. It is expected that the total sales volume of edible colorants will reach 775,000 tons in 2015, with an increase of 2.94% and total sales of more than RMB60.4 billion, up 13.27% year on year. The export is expected to exceed 12788 tons and the total value of export is more than USD412 million. 2015 industry-wide production and sales will achieve steady growth goals. Among them, the natural colorant pepper red pigment, lutein and gardenia yellow and other varieties of a larger growth rate, chili red pigment prices rebounded slightly, excess capacity is gradually consumed slowly. Lutein prices increased significantly, but only bottomed out after the recovery of rational stage. Gardenia yellow production and sales growth is also a reasonable space fluctuations. Caramel pigment is stable growth, curcumin, red yeast red, chlorophyll copper salt, algae blue and other varieties of negative growth. Synthetic colorants and their complex products show a healthy and stable development trend.