Black garlic is a kind of healthy food made from fresh garlic with skin after 60 to 90 days fermentation under certain temperature and humidity conditions. It has high trace element content, tastes sweet and sour, and its market price is several times higher than that of fresh garlic. It is a high value-added deep-processed garlic product with good export prospects.
It is reported that from Xining Customs on the 12th that a batch of black garlic with a value of 19.25 million dollars produced by Damei Agricultural Science and Technology Development Co., Ltd. of Qinghai Province was successfully exported to Thailand after passing the inspection and quarantine supervision of Xining Customs recently. This is the first time that black garlic in Qinghai Province has been exported to foreign markets.
Xining Customs staff introduced that black garlic is a kind of healthy food made from fresh garlic with skin after 60 to 90 days fermentation under certain temperature and humidity conditions. Its trace element content is high, its taste is sweet and sour, and its market selling price is several times higher than fresh garlic. It is a high value-added deep-processed garlic product with good export prospects.
"In order to ensure the smooth export of this product, we have sent food safety inspection and supervision personnel to visit enterprises many times, preach laws and regulations and safety and health requirements of food enterprises, and earnestly do a good job in risk assessment to guide enterprises to establish and improve HACCP system." Xining Customs staff said that at the same time, they also collected relevant Thai quality, safety and health standards, strengthened the training of enterprises'production and management personnel, guided enterprises to process products according to the standards of importing countries, actively helped enterprises to improve management level, and effectively guaranteed the quality and safety of export products.
