Sichuan flavor is the abbreviation of Sichuan flavor compound seasoning. The main production area is Sichuan and Chongqing. It is mainly used in traditional and innovative Sichuan flavor dishes and food, and the products are sold to the national and even international markets.

Sichuan cuisine is mainly spicy, spicy, spicy and fragrant, and attaches importance to the use of three peppers and oil. There are more than 20 compound flavor types, including fish flavor type, spicy flavor type, sour and spicy flavor type, red oil flavor type, salt and pepper flavor type, minced garlic flavor type, ginger juice flavor type, etc. In recent years, to adapt to consumers' pursuit of new and strange consumption psychology, Sichuan cuisine has been innovating and rich in patterns on the basis of these traditional tastes, especially in public catering and family kitchens.

With the popularity of Sichuan cuisine and consumers' love for Sichuan cuisine, Sichuan cuisine industry has encountered a good period of development opportunities and gradually developed. There are many kinds of products, with rapid product innovation and iteration, many enterprise brands, prosperous market and fierce competition.

The main product types include: Sichuan semi-solid composite seasoning, such as Sichuan hot pot bottom, hot pot dip, Douban sauce, flavor Douchi, Sichuan convenient seasoning, Sichuan chili sauce, etc; Sichuan liquid compound seasoning, such as Sichuan seasoning oil (juice); Sichuan flavor solid compound seasoning, such as all kinds of spicy seasoning powder; Sichuan pickles, such as Sichuan pickles, pickled mustard and various convenient dishes; Sichuan flavor fermented bean curd, such as Sichuan style spicy, spicy, red oil tofu milk, etc.

Development basis of Sichuan water transfer industry

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Product raw materials are the advantages of the development of Sichuan water transfer industry

Sichuan Chongqing region is located in Sichuan basin with humid climate, which is suitable for the cultivation of pepper and pepper. It is the main production area of pepper and pepper in China.

The planting area of Sichuan pepper is 4.23 million mu. It is estimated that by 2022, the planting scale of Sichuan pepper will be expanded to 6 million mu. Chongqing Jiangjin Zanthoxylum bungeanum has a long history and is famous far and near. It is a national geographical indication product in China. Sichuan Province has a pepper planting area of 1.16 million mu, accounting for 5.2% of the national pepper planting area, with an output of 1.434 million tons and an output value of 1.5 billion yuan. Chongqing's pepper industry is very characteristic. Shizhu Tujia Autonomous County, Chongqing's specialty pepper is a geographical indication of national agricultural products and one of the top ten famous peppers in China.

Sichuan Chongqing diet adapts to local conditions and the characteristics of humid climate. A large number of raw materials such as pepper and pepper are used as seasoning products, forming a unique flavor of Sichuan cuisine. These two kinds of ingredients have become indispensable raw materials in Sichuan cuisine. Condiment products based on these two raw materials have become the mainstream and trend. The origin advantages of these two raw materials also provide a foundation for the development of Sichuan dispatching enterprises.

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The popularity and innovation of Sichuan cuisine has driven the development of Sichuan cuisine industry

Sichuan food culture is very consistent with the culture of "reunion and excitement" in Chinese family and social culture. Spicy and delicious taste has a wide audience, and is easy to form taste dependence and addiction preference. Sichuan cuisine, especially hot pot, caters to the needs of accelerating the pace of life and convenience, making Sichuan cuisine gradually popular all over the country.

Sichuan cuisine accounts for 35% of the eight major cuisines, becoming the cuisine with the highest proportion. Among Chinese restaurants with per capita consumption of less than 50 yuan, Sichuan cuisine accounts for the largest proportion, up to 47%. Among the 20 dishes with the highest online sales popularity, Sichuan cuisine accounts for half of the seats. For example, Kung Pao diced chicken, Mapo Tofu, sauerkraut fish, double cooked pork, beef in sour soup, spicy hot and so on have become household dishes. These dishes can not only meet the needs of medium and high-grade catering, but also meet the needs of public catering. They have a vast market and consumption foundation.

Sichuan hot pot has become the most active and advantageous variety in Sichuan cuisine. Hot pot is the largest segment in all segments of the catering industry, and the market scale is growing steadily. With various tastes, rich ingredients and rich cultural connotation, as well as low requirements for cooking, high degree of standardization, convenient operation and easy expansion, hot pot has become a high-quality track in the catering industry. The Sichuan Chongqing hotpot faction accounts for about 60% of the market share of the national hotpot industry, with obvious advantages. The development advantages of upstream raw material enterprises, hot pot ingredients, hot pot seasoning and other related industries around hot pot are also gradually emerging.

The subdivision trend of Sichuan cuisine convenience food appears, such as zihi hot pot, convenient hot and sour noodles, convenient pickled fish and other packaged foods and prefabricated dishes, which gradually enter the field of consumption. So that consumers can easily enjoy the delicious dishes that can only be enjoyed in restaurants.

With the popularization and innovation of Sichuan cuisine, the investment boom of hot pot industry and the development trend of convenient food of Sichuan cuisine, Sichuan cuisine industry has ushered in the golden period of development.

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The support of local governments has promoted the formation of Sichuan dispatching industrial clusters

In recent years, local governments have begun to pay attention to the support, promotion and promotion of local advantageous industries. For example, the promotion and industrial promotion of snail powder by Liuzhou municipal government is a good case. The industrial clusters of condiment industry include Yangxi industrial base, Xinghua Industrial base, Leling industrial base, Qingxu industrial base, etc.

With the support and guidance of governments at all levels, the rudiments of Sichuan dispatching industrial clusters have basically taken shape, such as characteristic Sichuan cuisine industrial cluster with Pixian County as the core, pickle industrial cluster with Meishan as the core, pickled mustard industrial cluster with Fuling as the core, bran vinegar industrial cluster with Langzhong as the core, chicken essence and monosodium glutamate industrial cluster with Wenjiang as the core, etc. In particular, the local brands of "Pixian Douban", "Meishan pickle" and "Fuling mustard" have prominent advantages and have the trend of group development.