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1. White Elephant, Jinmailang, Wahaha, ......Recently, the reporter walked into Henan Zhongda Hengyuan Biotechnology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Zhongda Hengyuan), standing in front of the customer matrix containing more than 4,000 well-known enterprises, and was shocked and very curious about what is the source of Zhongda Hengyuan's core competitiveness. With questions, the reporter interviewed Wen Yanjun, chairman of Zhongda Hengyuan, to explore the mystery of the colorful health world.
The reporter walked through the colorful corridor of the Hengyuan exhibition hall of CUHK and saw a world full of fairy tales: colorful pigment raw materials and finished products, colorful candies, pastries and drinks, pure plant pigment dyed clothes and silk scarves ......Peppers from Linying, sugar beets from Xiping, rosemary from Yuzhou, turmeric from Sichuan, gardenia from Jiangxi and other agricultural products with earthy fragrance are extracted, separated and purified in the production workshop of Zhongda Hengyuan to become natural pigments and natural antioxidants.
Each plant has its own characteristics. For example, many people think that turmeric used in curry is a foreign product, but in fact, it has been cultivated in China for more than 1,400 years and has the effect of protecting the liverLutein protects the eyes and is a type of carotenoid;Gardenia is endemic to China's ......Walking along the visiting corridor, Wen Yanjun knows the functions of various pigments.
Adding color to life and health to life is the belief we adhere to. Wen Yanjun said.
In the laboratory of CUHK Hengyuan, the staff added pigments to the ingredients in turn to record the changes in pigments in different experimental scenarios. "There is no shortcut in the application experiment, and a large number of experiments are required to accumulate data. Wen Yanjun told reporters, "Taking ham sausage as an example, if you don't add pigments, the original meat color will greatly reduce people's appetite, and adding chemical pigments will harm human health." Our job is to extract natural colors from plants for use in food. ”
The high-quality development of the entire food industry chain requires every enterprise in the chain to produce good products. When it comes to the mission of food companies, Wen Yanjun is quite moved.
In 1993, Wen Yanjun, who was still a young university teacher, went to Japan and learned that natural colors were widely used in the Japanese food industry, while the field in China was still blank at that time. "The food industry in Japan has always been known for its health. What the Japanese can do, we Chinese can do too!Wen Yanjun resolutely abandoned literature and business and established China's first natural pigment research institute. Starting from the research of healthy pigments, she pursued a healthy background color from "one flower, one leaf, one tree, and one fruit", opened a precedent for the successful application of natural pigments in China's food industry, and led the development direction of healthy functional foods. She has led Zhongda Hengyuan to grow step by step into a leader in precision nutrition of health functional foods, and has become a strategic partner of many well-known domestic and international first-line enterprises.
This segment was initially not studied in depth. From the process layout to the installation and commissioning of the equipment, we have explored it ourselves. Wen Yanjun said.
In the huge production workshop of Zhongda Hengyuan, there are almost no operators to be seen. Closed pipelines and extraction tanks form a closed production loop, sensors, instruments, control valves, and controllers automatically adjust the material flow, flow rate and temperature, and the end finished product filling and slag separation are fully automated. "Our new allulose project uses the most advanced DCS control system available at the moment, which has reached the standard of a lampless factory. Wen Yanjun introduced that the company has independently designed and installed 23 extraction and fermentation production lines, which can meet the production needs of different raw materials and different processes. In 2022, Zhongda Hengyuan was rated as a pilot base for biological fermentation and plant extraction in Henan Province.
Innovation and leadership is the endogenous driving force for the development of Zhongda Hengyuan. Zhongda Hengyuan has invested a lot of manpower, material and financial resources in product technology innovation, and has achieved outstanding results. Zhongda Hengyuan is one of the first batch of national green factories and specialized and new small giant enterprises, national intellectual property advantage enterprises, national key leading enterprises in agricultural industrialization, and national high-tech enterprises, and has established high-level R&D platforms such as national enterprise technology center, postdoctoral research workstation, Henan Provincial Key Laboratory of Natural Pigment Preparation, and CNAS certified inspection and testing center. The company has undertaken the "13th Five-Year Plan" and "14th Five-Year Plan" national key research and development projects, obtained 11 national, provincial and ministerial scientific and technological achievements, 93 patents, led and participated in the formulation of 27 national food safety standards, and is currently the world's largest gardenia yellow extraction enterprise and the only full-color natural pigment manufacturing enterprise.
From traditional food to health food, from green production to intelligent manufacturing, from plant extraction to biosynthesis, from functional ingredients to comprehensive development, from pharmaceutical daily chemicals to health and nutrition industry ......Standing on the cusp of the future food and health industry, Zhongda Hengyuan is born from health and walks towards health. This is the original intention of Wen Yanjun, and it is also the foundation of Zhongda Hengyuan.
Luohe**Quan**Reporter Qi Guoxia.