Chinese pepper industry status quo and development trend

The chili is an important economic crop, due to the rapid development of transportation, China has been formed a lot of pepper production bases, peppers had become the main economic crops and an important source of income in many parts. Consumer groups increases, the consumption also increases, China has large population, for a long time had formed a unique consume habits, Northwest, Southwest, Northeast, Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi are the famous spicy areas, have a very large demand for pepper. Due to the frequent mobility, there is not exist spicy and non-spicy food areas, spicy food groups increasing. Around the world, on the one hand, due to the accelerated pace of work, simple and fast food developing rapidly, on the other hand, human’s requirements of health food, there has been appear the low-fat, spicy foods, make people's eating habits changed, at present, about 3/4 of people eat pepper or chili products in the world. The pepper achieved balanced supply annually.

Pepper as important industrial raw materials, not only is an eaten fresh vegetable, but also the condiment and important natural pigments, pharmaceutical raw materials and other industrial raw materials. Chili powder, chili oil and chili products is the traditional processing products, have a certain reputation in the international market. Peppers contain a variety of chemicals to maintain the body's normal physiological function and enhance the body resistance and activities, have a certain effect on many diseases, in recent years, capsaicin in pharmacological studies have rapidly developing, chili has become an important pharmaceutical raw materials. Capsanthin is important natural pigments, with bright color, varied colors, good stability, no side effects to people, the developed countries such as the United States, Japan and many other countries were ruled the food can unboundedly use capsanthin, in addition, capsanthin is also the important pigment of medicine capsules, tablets, sugar-coated and senior cosmetic. At present, the chili used for processing spicy types foods and dried for processing dark red pepper’s cultivation area is rapidly increasing, have the trend to exceed bell pepper.

Capsaicin manufacturer said, capsaicin in chili mainly have five kinds: capsaicin, dihydrocapsaicin, drop dihydrocapsaicin, high capsaicin, high dihydrocapsaicin. Various capsaicin have different spiciness value, which the capsaicin, dihydro capsaicin is the main ingredient to affect the spiciness, these two substances account for 90% of the total capsaicinoids content, and the spicy is stronger than other capsaicin.

The data show that chili in recent decades has become one of the largest consumption of fruit and vegetable in the world, its trade volume has exceeded coffee and tea, the global chili and chili products is up to more than 1,000 species. Chinese pepper acreage has 1.3 million hectares and annual production capacity is 27 million tons, achieve 27 billion yuan output value, the spicy population is up to 500 million, accounting for 40% of the country's population. China has become the pepper production and consumption country ranks first in the world, an annual trade volume of chili and chili products are more than 98 billion yuan annually.

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