The prefabricated vegetable industry is surging, and the government and enterprises have increased their investment in the prefabricated food track, trying to seize this opportunity and gain their own interests. With the gradual development of prefabricated dishes in full swing, the upstream and downstream industries of prefabricated dishes have also developed to a certain extent accordingly. Among them, the food packaging industry can be said to stand on the top of the tuyere with the explosion of prefabricated dishes.
For those in the food packaging industry, pre-made dishes seem to sweeten the air, and this is a good opportunity. The ready-to-eat, instant-heated, and ready-to-cook products of pre-prepared dishes use various packaging, especially fresh-keeping packaging and other functional packaging. Pre-prepared dishes will surely promote the prosperity of this type of packaging industry.
First of all, the development of prefabricated vegetables is very beneficial to the packaging of vacuum preservation, which is widely used in the packaging of prefabricated vegetables. Vacuum packaging can also be called decompression packaging, which is a type of packaging that extracts and seals all the air in the packaging container to maintain a high degree of decompression in the bag. Vacuum packaging can prevent food from reacting with oxygen and achieve the purpose of fresh food. Its main packaging forms can be divided into two types: vacuum bag packaging and vacuum box packaging. The commonly used types of vacuum packaging machines include double-chamber vacuum packaging machines, rolling vacuum packaging machines, stretch film vacuum packaging machines and so on. Vacuum packaging can not only prevent prefabricated vegetables from spoiling, but also facilitate the storage, transportation and sale of prefabricated vegetables. According to the characteristics of various types of pre-made vegetables, different vacuum packaging is selected for packaging. For example, when packaging sesame balls, a fully automatic vacuum packaging machine is generally used to package the sesame balls. The working process of the automatic packaging machine is that the stretch film passes through the mold. The principle of blowing up and sucking down forms a mold and wraps the sesame ball in it. The stretch film can be golden to add a sense of mystery to the sesame ball, or it can be colored, with ingredients, production tables and production dates printed on it, etc. It is both beautiful and high-grade, and it can also attract the attention of consumers. .
Secondly, pre-made dishes have a demand for thermal insulation packaging. For consumers who buy ready-to-eat pre-made dishes, the heat of the dishes is their major appeal. If they want to do this kind of service well, the problem of heat preservation of the dishes needs to be solved. As far as the current situation is concerned, there is still room for development and improvement in thermal insulation type packaging.
Finally, the booming development of prefabricated dishes will also lead to the advancement of film-coated packaging technology. The ready-to-cook products of pre-made dishes are clean dishes after washing and cutting. Consumers do not need to wash them after they buy them home. They can be eaten after simple cooking. Such dishes have a great demand for film-coated packaging. As we all know, in order to prevent food from being contaminated, people generally use plastic wrap to cover the food, but this method is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and is not suitable for large-volume pre-made dishes.
Although the prefabricated vegetable packaging market has a good prospect, the current prefabricated vegetable packaging still faces many processing problems, such as air leakage in vacuum packaging, bag breakage in the cooking process, slow packaging production line and so on. The food packaging industry also needs to start from the needs of prefabricated vegetable packaging, break through the technical bottleneck, and develop packaging products with excellent quality and convenient use. Only in this way can we stand out and gain competitiveness in the food packaging industry.