On September 12, "enzymes" were pushed to the forefront. A topic of "Hangzhou's 63-year-old aunt eats enzyme intestines for 3 years like snake skin" landed on Weibo hot search first.
According to the Qianjiang Evening News, Hangzhou's 63-year-old Aunt Wang has been constipated for many years, and after starting to eat enzymes three years ago, she was smooth a lot, and recently, during a colonoscopy, the doctor found that Aunt Wang's intestines were covered with brown-black patterns, like "snakeskin", suffering from "colon black disease".
Colon melanosis is caused by phagocytic cells of the colon wall engulfing brown pigment-like substances, resulting in pigmentation of the intestinal wall. In layman's terms, it is that the large intestine eats more pigment and becomes a black intestine.
Public information shows that enzymes, also known as enzymes, are fermented products containing nutrients made from fruits, plants, animals, etc.
Red Star Capital Bureau learned that many of the enzyme products sold in the Chinese market are imported, and many e-commerce platforms are sold, with prices ranging from 16 yuan to 689 yuan. There are also many domestic enterprises in the layout, among which Besunyen (00926.hk), Tomson By-Health (300146.sz) and other listed companies are also digging the gold enzyme market.
Many enzyme products are imported
It is sold on many e-commerce platforms
On September 12, a search by Red Star Capital Bureau found that a number of e-commerce platforms sell enzyme-related products, and enzyme products are rich in forms, including enzyme jelly, enzyme tablets, enzyme powder, enzyme stock solution, etc.
On the online shopping platform, enzymes are selected for their function
Red Star Capital found that many of the enzyme-related products on sale are imported, mainly from Japan and South Korea.
In recent years, edible enzymes have become popular among young domestic consumers, and many people regard them as weight loss and detoxification products. When some merchants sell on the platform, advertising slogans read: "Clean intestines and remove oil", "weight loss and beauty", "No diet, no exercise, losing thirty pounds in the month is not a dream".
From the price point of view, enzyme prices from low to high order, the cheapest have a unit price of 16 yuan, the price of expensive unit price of 689 yuan, but most of the enzyme unit price from 68 yuan - 398 yuan range.
In recent years, many companies have also laid out enzyme-related products. Just in January this year, Wang Laoji announced the listing of a new enzyme product. Red Star Capital Bureau saw on the official flagship store of Wang Laoji Taobao that a comprehensive fruit and vegetable enzyme fiber drink was sold on the shelves, and its advertising slogan was, "Anytime, anywhere, the sea eats worry-free". In the comments, many consumers regard it as a weight loss product, saying that after drinking, they "lost a lot of weight" and "intestinal peristalsis is much faster." ”
In 2019, China's first enzyme industry research report was released, according to the report, the current market size of China's enzyme industry reached 20 billion yuan, nearly 5,000 enterprises, and the market size in the next few years is expected to reach 200 billion yuan.
Zhou Hailong, secretary general of the Enzyme Branch of the China Bioenzyme Industry Association, said that as of November 2019, the overall market size of enzymes reached 20 billion yuan, the number of enzyme-related enterprises was nearly 5,000, and there were more than 200 enzyme production enterprises with an annual output of more than 200 tons. Among them, the production of edible and daily chemical application enzymes accounted for the largest proportion, a total of 73%.
Besunyen, Jilin Aodong and other listed companies have a layout
According to the Red Star Capital Bureau, at present, in the enzyme industry, domestic leading enterprises include Beijing Zimeitang Biotechnology Co., Ltd., Beijing Vitality Biotechnology Co., Ltd., Anhui Yangsheng Tianxia Biotechnology Co., Ltd., Henglikang Biotechnology Co., Ltd., Lijiang Deci Yannian Biotechnology Co., Ltd., Amendment Pharmaceutical, Renhe Group Shenghe Biotechnology Co., Ltd. and so on.
In addition, in recent years, many domestic listed companies are also laying out enzyme products, including Besunyen (00926.hk), Tomson By-Health (300146.sz), Jilin Aodong (000623.sz), Anderson Jiahua (871652.nq).
Founded in 2009, Besunyen is a giant in the slimming tea industry. Red Star Capital Bureau saw in the official flagship store of Taobao Bishengyuan that in addition to selling slimming tea, one of Besunyen's enzyme jelly series products - jelly fruit and vegetable enzymes are also sold on the shelves, priced at 79 yuan a box, ranking first in the store enzyme hot sales, the number of monthly sales of more than 10,000.
Besunyen fruit and vegetable enzymes (screenshot from Besunyen's official flagship store)
In addition, by-health's comprehensive fruit and vegetable enzyme sales are also in its Taobao flagship store, ranking at the forefront of its store products.
In addition, the listed company Jilin Ao Dong began to lay out enzymes as early as 2010, which is an enterprise with an earlier layout of enzymes in China. Jilin Ao Dong Enzyme Technology Co., Ltd., a subsidiary, has a business scope that includes the production and sales of enzyme stock solutions and related products, food, health care products, etc. In 2010, Jilin Ao Dong and Japan's Dagao Enzyme Co., Ltd. reached a cooperation to introduce the Dagao Enzyme brand, focusing its strategic focus on the enzyme industry.
In 2017, Liaoning Baoli Jiahua Biomedical Technology Co., Ltd. was listed on the New Third Board, which is mainly engaged in the research and development, production, sales and sales of enzyme products and the sales of other health and beauty products, enzymes are the company's core products. Before 2016, all the company's sales products are purchased, in 2016, the company's subsidiary Sheng Qi Haotian built a modern enzyme production plant and officially put into production, the company has begun to produce enzyme products independently.
expert
Enzymes cannot be used to directly act on weight loss
What exactly does enzymes do? Are there any side effects for health? And can it actually be used for weight loss?
In this regard, Wang Zhong, a clinical nutritionist at the Fifth People's Hospital of Chengdu, said that enzymes are actually some specific foods that we are talking about, and we can regard them as the products of fermented specific foods. "Edible enzymes contain flavonoids, superoxide dismutase (sod), probiotics, prebiotics, vitamins and a series of active ingredients, which can promote the function of intestinal movement and can play a certain auxiliary therapeutic effect on intestinal functional diseases, but its effect can not be used directly on weight loss." Wang Zhong said that weight loss is a systematic project, and now we call weight loss "weight loss metabolism", that is, it is already an independent discipline, is a systematic project, so it cannot be said that eating a food alone, such as enzymes can achieve the effect, this concept is wrong.
Wang Zhong pointed out that some businesses on the market now have problems that may be a little over-publicized, gimmicks are greater than the actual; the second is cheap products, in the production process, raw material selection is not good, consumers may cause some side effects because of food safety issues.
He analyzed that "colonic melanosis" is a non-inflammatory bowel disease characterized by melanin concentration of the colon mucosa, the essence of which is that macrophages in the intrinsic layer of the colon mucosa contain a large amount of lipofuscin. Wang Zhong said that there are several common situations that lead to colon melanosis, often some women eat diet pills for a long time (some diet pills contain diarrhea-inducing ingredients), which can easily lead to colonic melanosis, and people who eat vegan for a long time and do not stick to oil and meat at all, it is possible for the intestines to become black skin.
Red Star News reporter Xu Yuan intern reporter Shen Mengyun
Edited by Yang Cheng
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