Lightning · depth 丨 The secret of the "sugar -free" beverage -Reporters visit Yucheng "China Functional Sugar City"

Qilu.com · Lightning News August 9th. In this sauna, I want to have a bottle of cold and sweet drinks to solve the heat. I want to drink drinks and fear fat, and sugar -free drinks seem to be a good choice. Most of the sugar -free drinks that can be bought on the market are related to Shandong.

The reporter Ren Jing picked up a bottle of sugar -free drink and said, "There is no sugar, where does this sweetness come from? Let's take a look at the ingredient table, the first place is water, ranking 2nd place It's moss glycol. "

It is understood that moss glycol is a kind of filling sweetener, which can be made by glucose fermentation. It is a white crystalline powder. It has a refreshing sweetness and is not easy to absorb. At the same time, the calories are relatively low.

A cold knowledge: 95%of the global scalpel is supplied by 5 companies, three of which are in Shandong. Another cold knowledge, Shandong Yucheng is also known as China Functional Sugar City.

It is reported that Boatling Biological Co., Ltd. is the earliest domestic industrialized production enterprise in the country. Many 0 sugar and 0 card drinks on the market are now very popular. The functional sugar added in it is produced by this company.

Li Xia, vice president of Polaries Biological Co., Ltd., said: "The sales revenue in 2021 increased by 35%over 2020, and the profit increased by 300%. In the first half of this year, our profits increased by 40%. In such a more complicated one In the environment, we still continue to grow. Everyone's demand for the entire industry and health products is growing. "

Sugar -free drinks, the erythrose alcohol is full of the limelight. In fact, as early as 2003, the Boatling built a production line to industrialize the moss glycol alcohol. Essence

Li Xia told reporters: "Because Yucheng is an important grain -producing county (city) in the northernmost area of ​​Lu. In the 1990s, in order to develop a demonstration area for Yicheng to rectify saline -alkali land, the Chinese Academy of Sciences set up a test station in Yucheng. It is also a coincidence. At that time, the Institute of Microchana of the Chinese Academy of Sciences was studying the use of corn as raw materials to achieve high -tech value -added development of agricultural products. The earliest production was low polymer maltose, low -polyetric maltose, including in 2002 we started studying red moss. These products were filled with domestic gaps at the time. "

From filling the domestic gap to the hot market, it is not smooth sailing. At first, because of the small market demand, the red moss glycol production line had spent more than 10 years of downturn.

"We also saw the trend of the future big health industry, so we firmly persisted in this industry." Li Xia said.

From the 10 sealing cans in front of you, you can promote the value of red moss. It takes more than ten days from the grievances to the finished product. technology patent.

Li Xia introduced: "The main raw materials of red moss glycol are glucose. The bacteria are added to the glucose. After the metabolism of the bacteria, the rough products of the red glycol alcohol will be produced. Among them, there are more than a dozen moss glycol. "

The reporter saw in the application technology research room that Yu Mengmeng, the application R & D engineer of Bote Biological Co., Ltd., was making a sugar -free tea beverage made by red moss.

According to reports, now Yucheng has gathered 49 functional sugar companies, including two listed companies, one national manufacturing single champion demonstration enterprise, with a domestic market share of 80%, and the international market share of 35%. It has become a veritable one. The city of functional sugar, with the improvement of people's health concepts and consumption upgrades, the sugar -free industry has a wider market.

Li Xia told reporters: "Our new sugar product, Arolone sugar product, is another hot market sugar substitute product after red moss. At present , But the application scope and application area of ​​Araoneon is almost the same as sucrose. "