China’s booming ready-meals industry shows how pre-cooked food options are here to stay
The growing popularity of pre-cooked food in China-also known as the ready-meals industry-has made it a capital darling (宠儿).
In the world’s second-largest economy, the market for pre-prepared dishes has been mainly driven by food-selling companies. But a shift from _________ to family dining tables in the past two years, has rapidly brought pre-made food to the mass consumer market.
Deloitte’s consumer goods and retail industry head, Zhang Tianbing, now says China’s pre-prepared food market looks to have a(n) _________ future, with the business becoming more mature, _________ the general consumer market is still in the process of entering ordinary people’s life. “Pre-prepared dishes meet the preferences of a new generation of consumers for healthier and a wider _________ of meals,” Zhang said.
According to the report, China’s pre-prepared dishes market _________ about 550 billion yuan in 2021, with an expected compound annual growth rate of 13 per cent over the next 5 years, which suggests that the pre-made food market is more _________ this year than during the first two years of the pandemic.
As of June _________, there were more than 66,000 domestic pre-cook-related enterprises, of which more than 1,020 were newly registered this year.
As a new capital darling, the pre-cooking industry is attracting cross-sector investment from companies outside the _________ industry. In Zhuhai, the local government is preparing to build a vegetable industrial park, which will cover all aspects of the pre-made-food industrial chain, from raw materials (原材料) and production to _________ and sales.
Yin Ping, the mother of a junior high school student, bought several boxes of pre-prepared dishes online last month and was __________ the convenience and taste of the products. A dish that can be made in five minutes by simply throwing the ingredients into a pan is so convenient for me in the summer since I __________ make every effort to make yummy meals for the kids in a hot kitchen,“ Yin said.
However, the quality of pre-made dishes in the market remains uneven, as problems are __________ the lack of detailed labelling on such products, as well as difficulties in logistics and distribution. __________, the issue of restaurants using pre-made dishes without telling diners was included among the top complaints. For those who __________ food safety, without advance notice, the use of pre-prepared dishes by restaurants to replace those prepared on-site by a chef was harmful to consumers’ rights to information and choice.
With the rapid development of the pre-cooking market, it turns out that relevant regulations __________ in terms of promoting industry standardization.
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