The first export of lycopene from Beilun to EU

Recently, after passing the inspection and Quarantine of Ningbo Beilun inspection and Quarantine Bureau, a batch of lycopene with a weight of 50 kg and a value of US $15950 in Beilun area was successfully exported to Romania, which is the first time that Ningbo Beilun area exported lycopene to the European Union Lycopene is a kind of natural pigment, which mainly exists in the mature fruit of tomato It is one of the most powerful antioxidants found in the natural plants, and it is favored by the consumers of health products market According to statistics, from January to May this year, Ningbo exported 232 batches of plant extracts with a weight of 225.6 tons and a value of US $26.895 million, an increase of 51.6%, 29.8% and 36.5% year-on-year respectively, 90% of which were sold to the United States, the European Union, Japan, South Korea and other countries The main export products are more than 30 kinds of plant products such as blueberry, gingko leaf, ginseng, turmeric, grape, etc or extracts of traditional Chinese medicine There are more and more kinds of natural plant extract export products in Ningbo Some enterprises are developing and producing some new resources of plant health products with great market prospects Plant extract has become a new bright spot in the export of fine processing industrial and agricultural products in Ningbo.