Prepared foods, also known as convenient pre made foods, specifically refer to various mass-produced formula foods that have rapidly developed internationally in the past 20 years, characterized by certain formula requirements and process procedures. It has the advantages of being convenient, time-saving, efficient in raw materials, fuel-efficient, small in size, and waste can be processed into feed in processing, storage, transportation, sales, and consumption. It can be said that it is a product of the combination of modern nutrition, food technology, food refrigeration, modern packaging and other disciplines. Processed foods should be prepared according to their processing methods and transportation, sales, and storage characteristics Divided into low-temperature conditioning and room temperature conditioning. Frozen processed foods account for the main market in the low-temperature processing category. Such as hotpot preparation, noodles, rice dishes, etc; Room temperature conditioning products usually include high-temperature sterilized cans, conditioning packs, etc.
Conditioned food refers to food made mainly from agricultural products, livestock, aquatic products, etc., which have undergone pre-treatment and processing,Packaged food that is stored, transported, and sold in a frozen state (with a product center temperature below negative 18 degrees Celsius) using quick freezing technology.Processed foods belong to the category of frozen foods, which currently have five major categories: processed foods, livestock and meat products, poultry products, aquatic products, and fruit and vegetable products; Among them, prepared food has different classification methods according to different classification standards.
According to the classification of raw materials, processed foods can be divided into:
① Vegetable and vegetable based conditioning foods: such as dehydrated vegetables, five flavored almonds, spring bamboo shoots, etc;
② Meat conditioning food: such as seasoned meat kebabs, seasoned Rice-meat dumplings, sauce ribs, cube ham, chicken pieces, etc;
③ Aquatic conditioning foods: such as seasoned fish paste, seasoned fish fillet, grilled fish slices, grilled eels, etc;
④ Mixed recuperating food: such as dumplings, rice dumpling, hamburgers, hot pot ingredients, etc.
Although processed foods may sound unfamiliar to the general public, the Chinese market for processed foods has great potentialThe power still needs to be fully developed, but the concept of processed foods is rapidly evolving and evolving into a huge new typeFood processing industry.
