The upgrading of the citrus industry requires the strength of the whole chain

Citrus is a large family, and citrus and oranges are collectively known as "citrus"

Excellent varieties improve quality

"Strive to increase the supply of domestic orange juice to 50%"

Citrus is the world's largest fruit and the fifth largest internationally traded agricultural product

Brazil, the United States, Israel and other citrus processing industries in the world are well developed production areas, mainly the processing of sweet orange citrus into orange juice drinks

The development of China's orange juice processing industry has gone through three stages: the first stage is the fruity beverage era in the middle of the 20th century, and township enterprises and soda factories have blossomed everywhere, such as Arctic Ocean soda, Ice Peak soda, etc.

"Specifically, at present, China's sweet orange citrus processing is facing a shortage of upstream processing varieties and raw material bases, insufficient independent technological innovation in midstream deep processing, few downstream product types and weak international competitiveness

In addition to the evaluation and promotion of varieties, the institute conducts technical research and development to improve the quality of orange juice, such as extending the shelf life through ultrasonic vacuum rapid deoxygenation technology, reducing pulp sedimentation through micro-jet ultra-fine crushing technology, developing high dietary fiber orange juice, and improving routine efficiency and accuracy through online precision regulation technology

New technologies, new scenarios

"Develop the processing industry from the perspective of the whole industry chain"

China's citrus industry is diverse, there are about 1500 species, in addition to sweet oranges, there are 67% of wide-skinned citrus, 13% of grapefruit and 2% of citrus

"Industrial upgrading is an inevitable trend

Where are non-sweet orange processed products headed? Huang Linhua pointed out four application scenarios

"Some other citrus can also try to make NFC juice directly, such as orange, Sugar Belle and other taste flavor color are not bad; Wide-skinned citrus is not suitable for direct NFC juice and can be mixed with other NFC juices or concentrated juices

In recent years, the new tea industry has shown explosive growth, providing milk tea shops with juice raw materials and pulp and fruit particles has become a new market, and the demand for citrus pulp and juice has also increased

"Consumers are increasingly pursuing healthy and nutritious consumption, and there are many organic functional ingredients in citrus peel, which are good raw materials

Nowadays, the concept of "natural" and "organic" is prevalent, citrus essential oil is one of the important natural raw materials in the spice industry, can be widely used in food and daily chemical industries, cosmetics, detergents and other markets for citrus essential oil demand is increasing

"If you want to develop the processing industry, you can't just focus on the technology, process, equipment and products of the processing itself, you should look at this problem

(Gao Jiaodi)

China Food News (2022-09-16 04 edition)

(Editor-in-charge: Gao Jiaodi)