The market demand for plant peptides continues to increase, and soy peptides have the largest market size

Plant peptides are peptides prepared from plants as raw materials through hydrolysis, separation and purification processes. They include wheat peptides, rice peptides, soybean peptides, corn peptides, mung bean peptides, pea peptides and other types. As a type of plant-derived multifunctional peptide, plant peptides have good nutritional characteristics, physiological functions and processing characteristics. They can inhibit cell degeneration, enhance human immunity, improve cell metabolism, provide amino acids needed for the body to construct new tissues, prevent diseases, It is anti-inflammatory, lowers blood lipids, lowers blood pressure, lowers blood sugar, and regulates human physiological functions. It has broad application prospects in many fields such as food production and medical care.

There are many types of plant peptides with rich functions. They can be processed into preparations for consumption by consumers, and can also be processed into various additives for use in food, beverages, health foods, cosmetics and other products. In recent years, with the continuous improvement of residents’ consumption level, the consumption concept is changing from “treating diseases” to “preventing diseases”. Healthy diet and body regulation are increasingly valued by consumers. Plant peptides are derived from natural plants and are easy to use. It is absorbed quickly and has regulatory, preventive and certain therapeutic effects on the human body. It is increasingly recognized by consumers, and the demand for plant peptides continues to increase. According to the“China Plant Peptide Industry Market Monitoring and Future Development Prospects Research Report 2022-2026” released by the Industrial Research Center, 2021 In 2018, China’s demand for plant peptides was 55,300 tons.

In recent years, China has made significant progress in the research, production, and application technology development of plant peptides, achieving effective tracking of international advanced levels. At the same time, China’s plant peptide industry has emerged such as China Food Duqing (Shandong) Biotechnology Co., Ltd. The company, Wuhan Tiantianhao Biological Products Co., Ltd., Hubei Ruibang Biotechnology Co., Ltd. and other plant peptide manufacturers are represented. With the joint efforts of these enterprises, China’s plant peptide industry has achieved large-scale production and commercial application, successfully providing a strong raw material basis for product innovation and upgrading in food, health care products and other industries.

Industry analysts said that soybean peptides are currently the most researched, most maturely developed and most widely used plant peptide products, and they are also the most popular in the market. The most competitive plant peptide industry segment. In addition to soybean peptides, subdivided industries such as rice peptides, mung bean peptides, and pea peptides also show good development prospects. On the one hand, there are more and more studies on these subdivided products, laying the groundwork for the further industrial application of these subdivided products. On the other hand, these segmented products are more expensive, market competition has eased, and profit margins are higher.

From an application perspective, meal replacement powder and infant formula milk powder are the application areas with the greatest development potential. On the one hand, compared with foreign countries, the market penetration rate of domestic meal replacement powder and infant formula milk powder has increased significantly. space; on the other hand, it is due to the continuous improvement of domestic consumption power. Therefore, the demand for plant peptides in these two fields will maintain a rapid development rate in the future, and companies can focus on developing adapted plant peptide products for these two fields.