#Gelatin # according to whether it is edible or not, gelatin can be divided into industrial gelatin, edible gelatin two categories. Edible gelatin is a hydrolysate of collagen, which is high in protein, free of fat and cholesterol, and is a natural nutrient-based food thickener. Edible gelatin is made by using fresh animal skin and bone as raw materials, the appearance is colorless to light yellow solid, odorless and tasteless, insoluble in cold water, soluble in hot water, soluble in acetic acid, glycerin and other parts of organic solvents.
Edible gelatin is mainly made of pig, cattle, sheep and other animal skins, bone, soft taste, elastic, contains a variety of essential amino acids, easy to be absorbed by the human body, and has thickening, gelling, clarifying, emulsification, stabilization and other effects, can be used as food additives, in the field of food processing used to produce jelly, fudge, yogurt, ice cream, cake, beer, juice and other products. High-quality edible gelatin can be used in the field of medicinal applications, used to manufacture hard capsules, soft capsules, and processed into hydrogel hygienic materials for burn and burn treatment.
According to the "2020 Edible Gelatin Industry In-depth Market Research and Investment Analysis Report" released by the New Thinking Industry Research Center, China's economy continues to grow steadily, and the food processing, pharmaceutical production, health care product manufacturing and other industries continue to grow and develop, making the market demand for edible gelatin continue to rise. From 2010 to 2019, the average annual compound growth rate of China's edible gelatin market size was 9%, higher than the overall gelatin market growth rate, and the market size in 2019 was about 1.16 billion yuan. Driven by market demand, the scale of China's edible gelatin industry continues to expand, at this stage, China is the world's largest producer of edible gelatin.
The production process of edible gelatin mainly includes three categories: acid hydrolysis, alkali hydrolysis, and enzyme preparation. Among them, the enzyme preparation method has the advantages of short production cycle, high production efficiency, good product quality, and small environmental pollution, and has gradually become the mainstream process. China's edible gelatin production enterprises are numerous, most of the enterprises are small in scale, the technology is relatively backward, the product quality is uneven, individual enterprises in order to seek benefits, and even industrial gelatin impersonation of edible gelatin, made into toxic food or drugs, the healthy development of the industry has a negative impact.
With the implementation of the "Belt and Road" strategy, the pace of enterprises "going out" has accelerated, and edible gelatin production enterprises must be in line with international standards if they want to be recognized by the international market. In this context, the large-scale, standardized and high-end development of China's edible gelatin industry has become a trend, and enterprises with large production scale, strong anti-risk ability and high-quality edible gelatin production capacity have more development advantages, and other weak and standardized enterprises will be gradually eliminated.
New Thinking Industry Analysts said that New Thinking Industry Analysts said that edible gelatin can be applied in the field of food processing, high-quality edible gelatin can also be applied in the field of medicine, driven by the downstream market, China's edible gelatin demand continues to grow. Edible gelatin quality is directly related to human life and health safety, our government on food and drug supervision is becoming more and more stringent, can not meet the national standards of production enterprises do not have room for development, superimposed to meet the requirements of the international market, the future development of China's edible gelatin industry will be increasingly standardized.