Market Prospects of Corn Processing Industry

German Nutrition Healthcare Association indicates that Corn is the most Nutritious and health beneficial food in the staple, which has the function to prevent heart disease and cancer. This Research lasted one year to find that vitamin contained in corn is 5-10 times more than that in rice and wheats by comparison the nutritious value and health benefits of corn, rice and wheats.

Currently, as starch milk and broken rice cost much, many breweries in China switch to corn grits with low fat, protein and ash to ferment good taste beer. Companies like Budweiser and Qingdao have purchased large quantity of low fat corn flour.

In China, hundreds of sugar plants continuously change technology to use 80 mesh low fat and ash corn flour in place of starch milk to increase economic benefit by reducing costs.

In many developed countries, corn has become a kind of fashionable healthcare food, for instance in America, 2/5 of the healthcare food is made of corn. Recent years, various corn food sells well in international market, in Canada and America, corn instant noodles have become a fashion which only needs boiling for 5-6min before eating.

It can be estimated that marketing demands of corn processing industry will expand by 22% per year that at the end of the first decade of 21st century, corn products will increase over 3 times. Progress of science and technology will make corn health food more competitive.