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Nutrition and Health

With the continuous economic development, people's pursuit of healthy and high-quality life is increasingly growing, Yihai Kerry, based on its decades of technology, products, services and experience, strives to provide consumers with healthier products, better services and more diversified choices, practicing the outline of the Healthy China 2030 Plan.

 

From 2020 to 2030, the Group's R&D center plans to invest 100 million yuan to support scientific research and help the "Healthy China 2030" goal.

  1. Nutrition and Health Product Strategy

    As one of the leading enterprises in the cereal and oil industry, We have always been committed to promoting industry changes and insisting on industrial innovation, devoting ourselves to scientific and technological innovation in the field of cereals and oils. We are constantly developing nutritious products, guiding the healthy consumption of the nation, and leading the healthy development of the industry. We strictly follow the relevant laws and regulations, including the Food Safety Law of the People's Republic of China, to ensure the nutrition, health and safety of our products. We focuse on "Launching diversified highquality products", "Enhancing the nutritional value of products", "Optimizing the dietary structure", and "Promoting green and organic products”. With the technology, products, services and experience we have accumulated over dozens of years, we are striving to provide consumers with healthier products, better service, and more diversified choices to serve the implementation of the "Healthy China 2030" plan.

     

  2. Nutritional Health Product Development Goals

    Selecting Premium Breeding Resources to Enhance the Nutritional Value of Raw Materials
    For a long time, agricultural breeding in China has focused primarily on yield, with insufficient attention paid to the nutritional quality of agricultural products. This has led to a gradual decline in the nutrient density of many crops. We actively collaborate with scientific research institutions, leveraging technology to drive variety improvement. We are dedicated to developing crop varieties with higher nutritional value and superior taste, significantly increasing the content of various nutrients such as dietary fiber, minerals, and vitamins. This provides a high-quality raw material foundation for healthy food products.

     

    Promoting Moderate Processing to Maximize Nutrient Retention
    The current grain and oil processing industry commonly faces issues of over-processing, which not only leads to resource waste and environmental pressure but also introduces a range of quality and safety risks. For example, during oil refining, beneficial components such as vitamin E and plant sterols are largely lost, while harmful substances like trans fatty acids are generated. Similarly, deep processing of rice results in the loss of trace elements such as B vitamins and minerals.

     

    We consistently adhere to the philosophy of "moderate processing, nutrition first." Through independent research and process     innovation, we promote a more scientific and sustainable development path for the industry. Under the strict premise of ensuring food safety, we maximize the retention of natural beneficial components such as vitamin E and plant sterols while reducing harmful substances like trans fatty acids. This achieves industry benchmark quality, with a retention rate of over 80% for nutrients such as vitamin E and plant sterols and near-zero trans fatty acids. We strive for a balance of nutrition, safety, taste, and efficiency, leading the grain and oil processing industry toward a healthier and  more sustainable future.

     

    Developing Functional Products to Pioneer a New Era of Dietary Wellness
    Driven by the national concept of "food as medicine" and the Healthy China strategy, the health industry has entered a new stage of universal demand. Leveraging technological innovation, we develop safer, more nutritious, and highly functional grain and oil products to actively meet consumers' diverse and personalized health needs.

     

    By extracting functional nutritional components from natural ingredients, we create "plant functional chips" to help specific groups achieve the health goal of "preventing diseases before they occur." The company will gradually launch a series of low-GI* (GI ≤ 55) foods, functional oil products with diacylglycerol content ranging from 40% to 80%, and formulated products such as zero-salt, low-salt (sodium content ≤ 120mg/100g), fat-free (fat content ≤ 0.5%), low-fat (fat content ≤ 3g/100g), low-sugar (sugar content ≤ 5g/100g), and high-fiber (dietary fiber content ≥ 6g/100g) options. These products comprehensively address the nutritional needs of different groups, empowering the public to upgrade their health.

     

  3. Launching diversified high-quality products

    Yihai Kerry has launched the ‘Arawana Feng Yi Tang’ health and wellness brand, marking  strategic leap from a leading player in traditional grain and oil industry to the health & wellness food sector.

     

    Upholding our philosophy of “Oriental Nutritional Wellness”, Arawana Feng Yi Tang deeply integrate century‑old Chinese dietary therapies with modern nutritional science. Backed by scientific formulations, precise nutrition and innovative processes, the brand is committed to integrating health management into Chinese people’s daily diets to support the long-term goal of “preventing diseases before they occur”. Grounded in the Healthy China strategy, the brand takes culture as its root and technology as its driving force, unlocks the value of “food and medicine sharing the same origin”, and drives the food industry to transform and upgrade from “basic dietary provision” to “food-based wellness”.


    Closely aligned with the national “Healthy China 2030” Plan and the “Weight Management Year” Campaign, YKA has developed three major product lines: safety, health and high-functionality.

     

  4. Nutrition and health science promotion

    We has carried out a series of activities such as public welfare courses, science lectures and knowledge promotion to popularize basic knowledge related to nutrition and health for the public and create a good social atmosphere of cherishing quality food and conservation.

     

    Building an online science public platform

    We registered "Wilmar Science knowledge for the public" WeChat official account to spread scientific knowledge of a healthy diet. It has published more than 100 original scientific articles covering rice, noodles, oil, and other food science fields, which have been repeatedly reposted, shared and quoted on various platforms, with wide dissemination and great influence. The " Wilmar Science House" has gradually become a library of original scientific knowledge on cereals and oils, and has achieved good dissemination in the form of new media articles, helping to improve the scientific literacy of consumers.