Release time:

2024-01-05

Candy is a kind of candy cake, refers to a kind of snack with sugar as the main ingredient. Candied fruit is made of peach, apricot, plum, jujube or wax gourd, ginger and other fruits and vegetables as raw materials, pickled with sugar or honey and processed food. According to the regional distribution of preserves, there are mainly four types: Beijing (Beijing)-style preserves, Su (Suzhou)-style preserves, Cantonese-style preserves and Fujian-style preserves. With the improvement of people's living standards, the demand for snack foods such as candies has gradually increased, and the market capacity of the industry has further expanded. According to the data, in 2019, the total assets of China's candy chocolate and candied fruit manufacturing industry reached 107.552 billion billion yuan, and the total profit reached 13.581 billion billion yuan. Assets and profit of confectionery, chocolate and candied fruit manufacturing industry in China 2018-2019 Under the upgrading of consumption, young consumers, especially women, have a strong desire to explore fresh snack products and are extremely keen on sweets and candied fruits, which are sweet and sour appetizing snacks. Due to the great attraction of such sweets to children, families with children also constitute a large consumer group. In recent years, the production of candy products has also maintained a steady growth trend, with China's candy production reaching 3.298 million tons in 2019 and 1.274 million tons in the first half of 2020. Related Report: "Analysis of the Development Potential of China's Candy Industry 2020-2025 and Research Report on Investment Direction" issued by the China Economic Industry Research Institute. China is the main export country of the candy and candied fruit industry, in 2020 affected by the epidemic, the first half of the candy and candied fruit industry import and export trade both declined. In January-May 2020, China imported 32119.0 tons of candy and candied fruit, down 34.1 percent year-on-year, and exported 129971.9 tons, down 15.7 percent year-on-year. More and more imported candies and preserves are catering to the healthy transfer of consumers' eating habits by improving the raw materials and technology, which makes these high-sugar imported foods continue to be popular. In addition, compared with other types of food, candy, candied fruit derived from a richer variety of taste types, will make the consumer groups like to try new things to buy more. At the same time, because of the small size, not easy to produce satiety, and rich taste, candy, candied fruit can better meet the leisure purpose of consumers after dinner, but higher in the number and frequency of intake, but also to a certain extent increased sales.