Korea Garlic Processing Market Introduction

Romiter Machinery has many customer for garlic processing machine, like garlic peeling machine, garlic clove separating machine and garlic slicing machine.  We make some research on the korea garlic processing market.  We find it is one good market for garlic processing machine.

Korean Garlic Consumption

Garlic is one of the popular bulb crops cultivated throughout Asia that is used as spice and condiment in many dishes. And garlic is a rich source of proteins, phosphorous, potassium, calcium, magnesium and carbohydrates, so it has excellent nutritional values and medicinal properties.
Korea is the country eating the most garlic in the world, and Korean are using garlic in various foods and ingredients. Garlic is one of the essential spice in the taste of Koreans, and it is not exaggerated to say that they are eating garlic daily. Most Korean recipes use minced garlic as part of the seasoning; whole garlic cloves are often used to make broth, soups or stews; pickled garlic is also enjoyed as a side dish; and grilled garlic is used with Korean BBQ and table cooking. A record indicates that the garlic consumption in this country is whopping 37 tons one year which is 5 times that of the United States and France, 1.5 times that of Spain which is known as the country consumes the most garlic in the west. Korea is a garlic importing country, and China is the main exporting country for it. Korean imported garlic products covers fresh garlic, peeled garlic, frozen garlic, dried garlic and garlic acetic acid preparation, etc.

Staple Products Based on Garlic of Korea

There are many kinds of food products using garlic as an essential ingredient in Korea, and the kimchi is a kind of most common product; the Korean garlic has recently been launched various uses as a health food, such as black garlic and garlic juice.

—Kimchi

The large garlic consumption of Korean is linked to their love of kimchi which is a kind of garlicky, peppery, pickled dish and is widely regarded as Korea’s national food and symbol.
Kimchi is a traditional fermented Korean side dish made of vegetables with various seasonings. There are hundreds of varieties of kimchi made of napa cabbage, radish, scallion, or cucumber as the main ingredients, and the garlic is the indispensable seasoning coming with kimchi. Except adding an extra flavor to kimchi, the garlic is also employed as a medicinal ingredient in prepared kimchi for its medicinal properties.
Koreans consume kimchi according to seasonal preferences, so there are different seasonal kimchi for eating all through the year, and Koreans consume 40 pounds of kimchi per person annually, which means it is also a great consumption for garlic. And minced garlic and pasty garlic are the two forms usually used for making kimchi in Korea.

—Garlic Drink

Garlic drink is a kind of health beverage with great popularity in Korea, because it is provided with many healthy values. Garlic drink has the functions of inhibiting bacteria, removing invivo toxin, softening blood vessel, reducing blood fat, preventing cancer, and improving good looks, etc.; all-natural, high-enriched, rich nutrition, no foreign taste, easy to get and absorb, all these features make the garlic drink popular as well.
Garlic drink is produced by employing high-tech biological extracting method to maintain human heath. The main processing includes:
1. Raw garlic pretreatment: separate good-quality garlic cloves and remove their skin by a garlic peeling machine, and then sort and clean the peeled garlic.
2. Garlic crushing: deliver the sorted and cleaned garlic cloves into a crushing machine for crush.
3. Eliminating the smell: garlic has its own smell that is not pleasant to accept, so it needs to removed.
4. Extracting garlic juice: use a special extracting equipment to get garlic juice containing allicin.
5. Preparing the final drink: to get an additional flavor and increase the medicinal effect of the garlic drink, there are some other ingredients can be added, such as red dates, honey, polygonum multiflorum, the fruit of Chinese wolf-berry, licorice root.

—Black Garlic

Black garlic from Korea, as a healthy food, is drawing attention from China, the United States, Japan, Europe and Southern Asian countries. Black garlic is a food that can be enjoyed by everyone without aversion. Because it does not like the fresh garlic, having the unsavory and poignant taste; the characteristic smell disappears through ripening and fermenting.

Production of Black Garlic

Black garlic is produced through ripening and fermenting whole bulbs of fresh garlic in a humidity-controlled environment at an appropriate temperature for 45 days, with no additives and preservatives. During the ripening and fermenting processes, the sugar in the garlic turns brown and then black under the effect of heat. Also the black garlic gains viscosity through these processes, which makes it chewy. The finished black garlic tastes sweet and sour with the pungency and spiciness gone, making it appeals to all tastes. (In the industrial production of black garlic, to get the final products with superior quality, the fresh garlic is usually graded by a garlic sorting machine in advance.)
The processed black garlic products maintain garlic’s original virtues of increasing immunity and lowering cholesterol levels and blood pressure. It is thus recognized as an excellent functional health food. And the black garlic is also used to get black garlic extracts as a kind of healthy drink in Korea.
Black Garlic Nutritional Properties
The ripened and well fermented Korean black garlic has been gaining popularity among western foodies for several years; also it has recently caught the eye of the health-minded for its impressive nutritional properties.

The anti-oxidation quality of garlic is increased ten-fold through the ripening and fermenting processes; and there is a water-soluble sulfur compound, S-Allycysreine which is an amino acid containing sulfur and a physiology-activating substance that helps the body absorb the wholesome elements of garlic more easily and faster, is newly formed.

Other Korean garlic products processed and consumed

Other than the staple garlic products, there are several other products based on garlic in Korea, including pickled garlic, garlic powder, minced garlic, garlic paste, freeze-dried garlic, garlic bread, etc.

Company Profile

Romiter Machinery Co., Ltd. is a market leading designer and a manufacturer of Garlic Processing Machine with 10 years’ experience. In the past 10 years, we focused on researching and designing the machinery which could process the garlic into different types. Romiter Garlic Processing Machine meat Europe Quality Requirement. with CE Certification

Romiter Group provides a complete Garlic Processing Solution, which includes Garlic Peeling Machine, Garlic Clove Separating Machine, Garlic Clove Separating and Grader Machine, Garlic Cleaning Machine, Garlic Concave Cutting Machine, Garlic Mesh Bag Packing Machine, Garlic Mesh Bag Clipping Machine, Garlic Powder Production Line, Garlic Weighting Packing Machine, Garlic Grader Machine and Garlic Harvester Machine

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