Corn is a high-quality grain crop widely planted worldwide with large output and wide applicability. It is rich in dietary fiber, plant protein, vitamins and various trace elements, holding multiple values as grain, vegetable, non-staple food and industrial raw material. Fresh corn has high moisture and sugar content, accompanied by processing pain points such as short fresh-keeping cycle, easy deterioration and high storage and transportation loss. Supported by the fully automatic refined corn cleaning and deep-processing equipment, full-process standardized operations including sorting, impurity removal, cleaning, threshing, cutting, blanching, curing, dehydration, quick freezing, grinding, seasoning and packaging can be completed automatically, effectively locking the sweet taste and natural nutrition of corn. Diversified deep-processing technologies produce a full range of high-value-added products, widely covering fresh retail, chain catering, prefabricated dish industry, casual snacks, grain ingredients, meal replacement foods, food industrial raw materials and other fields, realizing full utilization and industrial appreciation of corn raw materials. The specific processed products are as follows:
- Fresh Cut Clean Corn Products: After precise sorting, deep surface cleaning, impurity and defective grain removal, fixed-length cutting, threshing screening and draining finishing, fresh sweet corn and waxy corn are processed into clean impurity-free ready-to-cook corn segments and corn kernels. With golden color, full sweetness and no mildew or defects, they can be directly used for steaming, boiling, stir-frying, soup making, salad matching and other cooking scenarios, meeting the standardized bulk material supply needs of fresh supermarkets, central kitchens, chain catering and group meal enterprises.
- Frozen Corn Products: Cleaned corn segments and kernels are processed through high-temperature blanching, rapid fresh-keeping cooling and low-temperature quick freezing, which maximally retain the original sweet flavor, soft texture and nutrients of corn and solve the problems of deterioration and aging of fresh corn. The products feature long-term low-temperature storage resistance, stable quality after thawing and no softening or water precipitation without secondary treatment. They are widely used in the large-scale production of prefabricated home-cooked dishes, fast food side dishes, frozen mixed grain and vegetable packages, Western food side dishes and dessert raw materials.
- Dehydrated and Dried Corn Ingredients: High-quality corn kernels are made into dehydrated corn kernels and dried corn fragments through constant-temperature hot-air dehydration. Excess moisture is completely removed to greatly extend the shelf life, featuring small size, light weight, easy storage and transportation, and long-term room-temperature preservation. The rehydrated products have soft texture and pure flavor, widely used in grain dry goods wholesale, instant porridge materials, meal replacement ingredients, baking raw materials and outdoor reserve ingredients, serving as high-quality grain raw materials commonly used in the food processing industry.
- Ready-to-eat Cooked Corn Snacks: Made from fresh cleaned and sterilized corn through steaming and curing, special seasoning, vacuum fresh-keeping packaging and sterilization, products such as ready-to-eat waxy corn, vacuum sweet corn and flavored corn segments are soft, sweet and long-lasting in shelf life with healthy and clean formula. They are suitable for supermarket retail, community group buying, e-commerce terminals and daily casual meal replacement scenarios.
- Corn Powder and Mixed Grain Powder: Fresh corn is processed through standardized cleaning, dehydration and drying, fine grinding, and multi-stage screening and purification to produce superfine corn powder, waxy corn powder and compound mixed grain powder. The finished powder features delicate and uniform texture and natural color, retaining the original nutrition and grain aroma of corn to the greatest extent. As a high-quality natural grain ingredient, it is widely used in the processing of Chinese pastries, baked foods, meal replacement powder, infant complementary foods and multigrain porridge. It serves as a core natural raw material for healthy grain food and adapts to the standardized mass production of various healthy foods.
- Prefabricated Corn Side Dish Ingredients: Through integrated processes including cleaning, automatic threshing, curing and sterilization, flavor seasoning, and vacuum fresh-keeping packaging, fresh corn is made into a variety of heat-and-eat prefabricated corn products, including milk-flavored corn kernels, sauce-flavored corn, and mixed grain corn side dishes. Requiring no complicated pretreatment and ready to serve after heating, the products are highly efficient and perfectly fit the fast-paced modern catering model. They are widely supplied to prefabricated food enterprises, new retail supermarkets, chain catering institutions and household terminal markets with strong market adaptability.
- Functional Deep-processed Corn Raw Materials: Relying on refined deep processing and low-temperature extraction core technology, a variety of natural active nutrients rich in corn such as dietary fiber, zeaxanthin and plant polysaccharides are accurately extracted and refined into functional raw materials including corn extracts and high-purity dietary fiber powder. With high nutritional purity and complete retention of active ingredients, these products have extensive application scenarios. They can be used in the research, development and large-scale production of dietary supplements, functional snacks and nutritional health products, greatly tapping and improving the industrial added value of corn raw materials.
- Mixed Grain Matching Ingredients: Precisely proportioned with carrots, green peas and various grains, finely processed corn kernels and corn segments can be made into quick-frozen mixed grain vegetables and dehydrated compound grain ingredients. The products are suitable for multiple segmented consumption tracks such as nutritious meals, light food salads, fitness meal replacements, convenient prefabricated meals and baking accessories, accurately catering to the current diversified and green healthy food consumption trends and meeting the diverse needs of refined food processing.
