Loquat Leaf: Green natural plant packaging material

槲 (槲) is a kind of wild plant similar to 栎, and it is distributed in many provinces. Most of them grow in the hills and mountains. Because the wood is not mature, local farmers mostly use it for cooking for a long time. Develop and use this wild resource. The lotus leaves are as big as lotus leaf. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: loquat leaves, smell sweet, bitter, flat, non-toxic, with bleeding, only thirst and urination effect. Because the medical effects of the loquat leaves are not very prominent, people in our country have always been blind to it and allowed themselves to fall in the wild.

In recent years, the medicinal value of loquat leaves has not yet been fully developed, but its advantages in food packaging are getting more and more attention. This emphasis has come from Japan's demand for processing loquat leaves. In Japan, the loquat leaf is called Boeh Yeh, symbolizing good luck and longevity. Every year on Boys’ Day, we all need to eat a food called “Hesheng Fruit”. The package must use wolfberry leaves. The “Hesheng Fruit” packaged with cilantro leaves not only shows tradition and auspiciousness, but more importantly. Give the consumer a psychological blessing. Just as the Dragon Boat Festival in China must use bamboo leaves to wrap tweezers, except for expressing the traditional commemoration, it is more a kind of wish.

After processing the loquat leaves, fresh and dripping, used to package food, giving people a broad taste of imagination. In addition to the natural fragrance of loquat leaves, the loquat leaves that have undergone multiple processes, from the colors and specifications, from the awareness of hygiene and environmental protection, all give people a feeling of exquisite food, which greatly promotes people’s desire to buy and appetite. Eucalyptus leaves are used to package foods like dumplings, not only to reflect tradition but also to be closely linked to people’s awareness of environmental protection.

Eucalyptus is rarely used in domestic packaging, but it is a huge market in Japan. The leaf shape of the loquat leaf is not very regular, and the food is directly wrapped in leaves, which is messy and disorderly. In Japan, the leaves of packaged foods are processed in consideration of hygiene and regulation. The processing of eucalyptus leaves has to go through many processes, the main ones being cleaning, pickling, desalting, finishing, grading, peeling, rinsing, and vacuum packaging. The processed loquat leaf not only thoroughly cleans and eliminates harmful microorganisms attached to the surface of the leaves, but also guarantees the hygiene of the leaf-packed foods, and increases the tenacity, the purity of the color, the tenderness and the dripping, and the uniform size. The processed loquat leaves have completely reborn and become "food grade wrapping paper." Due to rising labor costs in Japan, Japan has no longer processed its eucalyptus leaves for many years. Instead, it imports the processed eucalyptus leaves directly from China. Every year, Japan needs to import more than 100,000 boxes of processed loquat leaves (3000 cartons per case) from China alone. This shows that loquat leaves have occupied a considerable market for food packaging in Japan. In recent years, Shandong, Henan, and other provinces in China have processed eucalyptus leaves exported to Japan, adding considerable income to local farmers.

The tasting impact of the loquat leaf pack has great business opportunities. Because it is a natural plant leaf packaging material, the packaging itself will not have a harmful effect on the content, on the contrary, the fragrance of the leaf itself will infiltrate the packaged food, people will not have any psychological resistance to the packaging itself, more is Delusion of food taste. China's medlar is commonly used for bamboo leaves or eucalyptus leaves, and it has the same function as the loquat leaves. However, the cilantro leaves and bamboo leaves are rarely processed and washed at most. This makes it difficult to achieve the purpose of hygiene. Coupled with the size of different sizes, color and diverse, this should be fresh and attractive packaging, it has become a black face, a direct impact on people's taste delusions. The packaging of glutinous rice dumplings with eucalyptus leaves is not very different from the bamboo leaf packaging, but the appearance may have great changes. The bright color of the enamel leaves after processing is uniform, and the size of the packaging pods is uniform. The glutinous rice dumplings used in the packaging of fresh wolfberry leaves are used. In front of the dumplings wrapped in black bamboo leaves, the taste will naturally be tilted, and the business opportunities that this brings should be very clear.

The countries that process zelkova exports do not use eucalyptus leaves, which is a manifestation of the neglect of business opportunities. At present, domestic food companies have not yet discovered huge business opportunities for the packaging of eucalyptus leaves, and there is still no deep understanding of the packaging effect of eucalyptus leaves. Henan is the main base for processing eucalyptus leaves. In Yeo County, Henan Province, processed eucalyptus accounts for half of the Japanese market. However, in the entire Henan Province, cultivars are rarely used to package food. This is in addition to traditional factors. It's the result of businesses neglecting business opportunities. Because of its unique taste impact, Chinese wolfberry leaves should not be a problem for promoting sales of food. The question is who will make the first packaging attempt. There should be many foods available for trial, including: dumplings, moon cakes, breads, cakes, etc. .

The advantages of the packaging of eucalyptus leaves are first and foremost in terms of taste. It gives consumers information that is hygienic, natural, clean, does not contaminate food, and is conducive to environmental protection. When we are crippling the pre-contamination of paper packaging, the post-contamination of plastic packaging, and the high cost of metal packaging, the natural packaging material of loquat leaves deserves more attention and promotion. For food companies, the priority is to use eucalyptus leaf packaging, which not only brings healthy food to the general consumers, but also provides good economic benefits.