This year is the "healthy consuming" year. According to the interpretation of the departments concerned: the meaning of healthy mainly refers to good for health, environmental protective, nuisance free and pollution free. Figures related to the line predicted: the emergence rate and mention rate of the word "healthy food" will be an all-time high this year. That prediction was witnessed in the 2001 Guangdong international food exposition yesterday. Healthy foods were in the limelight.

Australian emus eggs and blue peacock meat are healthy food with authentication

Obviously, food enterprises from different places that have taken part in the exposition all showed their best products and many of them used healthy food as trump cards. Some healthy food that never been heard of appeared on stage and attracted many citizens who came for appreciating and tasting and many trade-men who came for searching investment projects. A great number of people crowded in front of the booth of Guangzhou English limited corporation, which was affirmed as leading enterprise by the 8 ministries and commissions of the country. Their products are Australian emus eggs and blue peacock meat. It is described that these two products just awarded the "healthy food" authentication by the Chinese healthy food development center in February of this year and they are the only once of meat wares that are confirmed as healthy food. Emu’s meat is regarded as healthy meat of the 21 century. Emu’s eggs are not only with plenty of nutrition and taste good, but also can be made into artwork. Mr. Wang who is from Dalian standing in front of the large green Emu's egg watched it carefully and finally bought one at 80 Yuan.

Figures of that corporation introduced: the purpose of this exposition is to invite businessmen to invest or cooperate, that is, our corporation sells seeds to them and support them in technology free of charge, and then we will recollect emus and blue peacock when farmers raise them to grownup. Now there were 15 agencies from Shenzhen and Beijing etc different places preparing to cooperate with the corporation. Another manufacturer from Xuzhou pushed forward healthy vegetable the great burdock, he also said, their great burdock vegetable, wine and tea all are healthy foods. Wal-Mart, Trust & Mart, and the south mansion all showed readiness to sell them once they were pushed forward, among which Wal-Mart had reached the elementary agreement with them.

Great burdock, silkworm chrysalis, Cordyceps sinensis, mulberry juice, Weiyang Aipo pickled vegetables, dry laver … all these healthy vegetables that citizens don't usually eat or even never heard of are extremely heat in the exposition. People crowded in the booths of these kinds of healthy food were apparently more than that in the traditional food booths. The 5-Yuan package of "long history" brand Weiyang pickled vegetable awarded the healthy authentication last year. They are so popular that all trade-men feel amazing. From 28 to yesterday, 200 kilograms pickled vegetables were all sold out. The boss said they had to carry more from Weiyang at the same night.

That healthy food so popular in Guangzhou out of trade-men's expectations

Sponsor units concerned also revealed: healthy foods are the key role in this exposition. About over half of the enterprises that have taken part in the exposition have promoted their healthy foods. While Guangzhou people who require higher and higher quality for food often talked about "healthy". They would ask whether the products were healthy food or not even before they bought them.

Guangdong provincial healthy food office took part in this exposition too. The figures in charge introduced that there were 76 kinds of products from 46 enterprises in Guangdong awarded or applying for the healthy authentications at present. Some leading enterprises of Guangdong vision on the bright future of the healthy food market currently and joined in the line of manufacturing. Many counts in mountain areas popularized their healthy food with their advantages. And a great number of nongovernmental businesses have surged the trend to applying for the healthy food authentications.

(Southcn.com December 27, 2002)