The chili is an important vegetable, China's northwest, southwest, northeast and Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi is the famous
spicy areas. The total pepper cultivation area of China
is 20 million mu, all of these fully explain that chili is an important vegetable
crop in China.
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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