In recent years, China's population growth and national income level have increased, and the operating income of food manufacturing industry has been growing steadily, rising from 1.39 trillion yuan in 2011 to 2.34 trillion yuan in 2016, with an annual compound growth rate of 9.11%.It reached 2.479.5 trillion yuan in 2017.The development prospect of food additive industry points out that, with the deepening development of consumption upgrading, healthy food is more and more favored by consumers. The sales volume of yogurt (especially normal temperature yogurt) and vegetable protein beverage, as healthy and convenient food with high protein and easy absorption, continues to grow rapidly.

In 2017, the number of food additive enterprises above designated size reached 983, 28 more than the previous year.According to the region, China's food additive production enterprises are mainly concentrated in the eastern coastal areas, of which Jiangsu, Guangdong, Shandong, Zhejiang and Henan are the top five provinces in terms of the number of production enterprises, the total number of enterprises accounts for about 50% of the national production enterprises.

In 2018, China produced about 9.01 million tons of food additives and ingredients, with sales of nearly 105.2 billion yuan.In terms of output and sales volume, the benefits of China's food additive industry are rising steadily. The average annual growth rate of major food additive products is about 15%, higher than the world average.In 2018, the total output value of China's food additive industry exceeded 100 billion yuan, and the industry has a broad development prospect.

Nearly 1,300 enterprises in China have obtained food additive production licenses.At present, China allows the use of more than 2000 kinds of food additives, various food additives in raw materials, technology, process and other aspects vary, so the food additive industry is relatively scattered in general, there are many small and medium-sized enterprises, but some varieties, segmentation industry concentration is very high.From the international experience, scale, intensification, efficiency is the development direction of food additive industry.

At present, the total output value of food additives in China has accounted for about 10% of the international trade volume, among which citric acid, sodium benzoate, potassium sorbate, saccharin, xylitol, vitamin C and vitamin E, ethyl maltol and other varieties have played a decisive role in the international trade, in the leading position.For example: China is one of the three major production bases of sodium benzoate in the world, the trade volume accounts for more than 1/3 of the international trade, becoming the main consumer and exporter of sodium benzoate in the world at present.

The development prospect of food additive industry pointed out that in the future, with the improvement of consumer safety awareness in China, the market of low-toxic products is optimistic, the product structure of food additive in China has put forward new requirements, which will promote the technology and products of food additive industry in China to further integrate with the international standards.

Therefore, it is expected that with the improvement of food additive safety level in 2019, new safe food additives will become a new economic growth point of the industry.To realize the export strategy of wide variety, superior quality and low price has always been the direction of expanding international trade of food additives in China.

In general, relatively fast development of China's food additives, food additives have significant growth in the type, quantity, has become the world's edible colorant most varieties of production and consumption power, in the international trade accounts for a certain share of main varieties of red kojic rice exports such as red, sorghum red, gardenia yellow, turmeric, annual trade is about more than $3000, more than all of the content is the development prospect of food additives industry analysis.