According to the statistics of the "Analysis Report on the Production and Marketing Demand and Investment Forecast of China's Canning Industry", China, which ranks first in the world in terms of canned food production, has a per capita annual consumption of only 1 kg, Japan's 23 kg, Western Europe is about 50 kg, and the per capita annual consumption of canned food in the United States is about 90 kg. Canned processed food with a history of more than 200 years was once a high-end food in the eyes of consumers in the era of material shortage. With the improvement of living standards, consumers' requirements for food safety and nutrition are also getting higher and higher, and canned food is gradually misunderstood by our people as unfree and unhealthy junk food, but the fact is the opposite, canned food is actually a very clean and hygienic, nutrient-rich high-quality food.
In the 1980s, China's hot canned food
China's latest version of the canned food classification standard GB/T 10784-2020 divides canned food into canned meat, canned poultry, canned aquatic products, canned grains and grains, canned fruits, canned vegetables, etc. 11 categories, such as our common canned tuna, canned yellow peaches, lunch meat, canned ketchup, etc. are everywhere in our lives. So why does the author think canned food is quality food?
First of all, the raw materials of canned food are not all scraps, rotten fruits, and fish and shrimp meat that cannot be sold. Generally large canning enterprises have strict production requirements, from the upstream suppliers to purchase raw materials also have specifications or standards, such as most of the fruit cans are glass bottle packaging or transparent flexible packaging, we can intuitively see the beautiful and complete oranges, yellow peaches, hawthorn and so on. As for the canned goods that cannot see the contents, if the quality of the raw materials is used, it is likely to affect the quality of a batch, and few manufacturers will take this risk.
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Secondly, canned food is not what many people think is added with a lot of preservatives. The long-term preservation of canned food mainly depends on their sterilization process, after the food is loaded into the can, vacuum, sealed, fully sterilized under high pressure conditions, to achieve a "commercial sterility" state. Therefore, canned food does not need to add any preservatives, can be stored for a long time without spoilage, and the general shelf life can reach 1-5 years. You can take a look at the ingredient list, canned fruits, canned vegetables, canned edible mushrooms and canned grains, etc. will not add benzoic acid, sorbic acid, natamycin and dehydroacetic acid preservatives, canned meat some will be added, but relatively few.
The third is that canned food is not food without nutrients. In the production and processing of canned food, the heating temperature will not be too high. The processing temperature of canned livestock and poultry aquatic products will not exceed about 120 ° C, and the canned fruits and vegetables will not exceed 100 ° C, and the temperature of our daily home cooking is likely to exceed 200 ° C. So to some extent, canned food loses less nutrients than home cooking. In addition, in order to save costs, regular canning factories have their own raw material bases, and the production line is built closest to the base, and fresh raw materials are selected in the right season. For example, the whole process of canned fruit from raw material picking to processing does not exceed 6 hours, and high-temperature heat treatment will stop or slow down nutrient loss, and in a vacuum and sterile state, the freshness and nutrition of food are preserved to the greatest extent.
China is the world's largest producer of canned food, a large number of products exported to the United States, the European Union, Japan and other countries in the world, the export volume reached 3 million tons. These countries have strict food censorship, while China's canned food can be exported in large quantities and is popular in the international market, indicating that the quality of canned food is guaranteed. Don't continue to misunderstand canned food, try to choose big brands to eat with confidence.