Decay into magic To fruit skin to make healthy and environmentally friendly snacks.

People may not be unfamiliar with dried fruit, from the beginning of the apple dry to the present durian dry, fruit dried this category after years of development, the entire category has been very rich, has long been not limited to apples, mangoes, bananas and other popular fruits. Fruit dry air-dried way to make perishable fruit can be preserved for a longer period of time, thereby reducing the occurrence of waste. But according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, "1.3 billion tons of food waste are produced globally each year", about 15 percent of which is edible peel. Against this background, the idea of processing edible peels into snacks began to emerge to reduce food waste.the opportunity to hide in discarded fruit skins
In 2018, the U.S. set up INND Snacks, a company that produces only dried fruit-skin snacks, an emerging zero-food category that caught the attention of the European and American food industry. Currently, the company offers three different flavors of dried fruity snacks, tropical mixed flavors, orchard flavors and kiwi fruit flavors, which contain pineapple peel dried, orange peel dried and kiwi dried fruit peels, and orchard flavors that include persimmon, apple peel and sweet peach peel dried. This snack is now sold as a combination.
understood that sales of nuts and dried fruit snacks in the United States reached $1.46 billion in 2016, with edible fruits and vegetables growing at a compound annual rate of 10%. It is clear from these data that consumer demand for natural snacks is growing. While the amount of fiber and vitamin content of dried peels are relatively high, the production of these edible peel snacks not only meet the needs of consumers for healthy snacks, but also reduce food waste, so as to achieve environmental protection.
japanese lion king in 2011 launched two dried snacks, the original grapefruit skin and lemon peel silk. The original grapefruit skins are made from grapefruit peels produced in Aiyu Prefecture, Japan, and are dried with sugar stains, reproducing the sweet and sour taste of grapefruit. The raw material used by the original lemon peel is Japanese-made lemon, the process of making grapefruit peel silk is exactly the same, not only delicious, but also rich in vitamin C and citric acid. Although it has been 8 years since the listing, but people's love of these two dried peels has not decreased, it can be seen that the market potential of dried snacks is still relatively large.
mentioned the dried peel, can not say that there is Jiabao launched nine-made chen leather, nine-skin is citrus skin as raw materials, this product accompanied many people through childhood, included in the nostalgic snack list.Fiveable flash point in fruit skin
Functional If in terms of comprehensive function, the most important feature of peel dry is that it is rich in dietary fiber, 85 grams of dried fruit skin contains about 50% of the amount of fiber required by the human body every day. As a result, dried peels are functionally appealing to consumer demand for healthy foods. In the case of pineapple coli, which contains a large amount of essential minerals such as manganese and copper, it can help people maintain bone health, while the special digestive enzymes of pineapple skin dry can also help digestion; Times or more; kiwi peels are not common on the market, containing serotonin to help people get a healthy night's sleep; sweet peach peels and persimmon skins are rich in vitamin A, vitamin C, and beta-carotene; and apple peels are rich in phosphorus.
in addition to the need for functionality, sustainability is also a key word in the development trend of the snack industry. Fruits and vegetables account for 39 percent of all wasted food in the United States, most of them discarded peels, which account for 20 percent of the city's solid waste, according to the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Dried peels are processed into snacks, greatly reducing the waste of edible peels. At the same time, products refined from previously seemingly useless dried peels can also change people's attitudes to life to some extent.
In the field of dried fruit, there are already many food companies that have an advantage in the market, but few consumers have a particularly high loyalty to a brand that produces dried fruit. At this time, the category with innovative attributes is likely to stand out from the market. Although the peel dry category has great market potential because of its innovation, it also encounters a problem that a new category can easily encounter - the commodity supply chain problem. In response, Wess, founder of RIND Snacks, said: "For all-natural, limited-life products, solving supply chain problems is really the most important thing right now. In
development trend of the food industry, "functional" and "sustainable" have become key words that can not be ignored. At the same time, consumers are more concerned than ever about the sustainability of food, according to Nielsen. It also shows that about 48 percent of U.S. consumers are likely to change their buying behavior because of the environmental properties of their food.
the production process of domestic leisure food, the production and application of fruit peel is less. As a healthy and environmentally friendly new category of dried peels, its development opportunities need to be explored, in the category known to consumers to innovate, to find hidden new opportunities is a good creative idea.