The discovery of chilies
The Maya began to eat dry red chillies as early as 5000 BC, and it appeared in 7000 BC, so peppers can be said to be one of the oldest crops cultivated by humans. After Columbus landed in America, he brought chili peppers back to Spain. After tasting chili peppers, the Spanish king was deeply attracted by its unique flavor, and then it spread widely in Spain. The red chilli spread to other continents in the world and was loved by people all over the world. Mexico, the country of origin of peppers, has also begun to widely cultivate peppers as an important economic crop.
Red chilies grow in China
China and India
As a well-known ancient country with a history of 5,000 years, China has vast land and profound agricultural planting experience. The combination of temperature and precipitation is diverse, forming a variety of climates. China has cold temperate, middle temperate, warm temperate, subtropical, tropical and other temperature zones from north to south. Diverse and new climate characteristics are suitable for the growth of different red peppers. China has become the second largest country in the world in chili planting area (followed by India, whose chili planting area accounts for 45% of the world’s total), but India’s chili production capacity is not high, and red chili production is only equivalent to the world’s 25% of chili production. Its yield per mu is only 1/3-1/2 of that of the United States and China.
dry red chilies type
India and China are the world’s largest and second largest exporters of dry red chillies, Its annual exports accounted for 43.03% and 25.47% of the world’s exports respectively, India mainly produces small red chili, with high spiciness, the devil chili with the highest degree of spiciness comes from India, while the red chilli produced in China have both large dried chillies and small peppers, SHU 500-18000, sweet paprika, yidu chili, jinta chili, honglong chili, american red chili are the main types, small red chillies are mainly tianying chili, sanying chili, chaotian chili.
The market of china dried chillies
The main export markets of China’s dry red chilies are Southeast Asia, Europe, and North America. China’s sweet paprika powder is mainly exported to Spain. Spain, as the main transfer station of European sweet paprika powder, imports more than 5,000 tons of sweet paprika powder from China every year. Malaysia is the first importer of Chinese dried chilies, and the main imported product is yidu dried chili. , tainying dried chili, companies in Malaysia will grind dried chili imported from China into chili powder or extract food coloring and export it to other countries.
whole dried red chillies in china
Around September every year, the red pepper in northern China enter the harvest season. The picked peppers will be placed in the sun for natural drying and dehydration. The water content of the peppers is controlled at about 16-18%. There are many active buyers in the pepper-producing area, who sort and store dried peppers in dry warehouses and sell the stocks to dry chili processors and exporters when the price is right. Most of the dried chilli in northern China are transported to dried chili exporters in Jiaozhou, Qingdao, China for secondary processing, stem removed, selecting, and making chili powdering. The Yujiacun dry red chili market in Jiaozhou is the largest and most authoritative dried chili distribution center in China.
The dry red chillies processing enterprises in Jiaozhou basically have their own laboratories, which can test the microorganisms diseases and insect pests, Aspergillus flavus of peppers and pepper products. The products comply with EU standards, and the standardized product quality control has made Chinese dried pepper exporters the main competitors in the export of dried pepper in the world.
how long can you keep dried red chilies？
The moisture content of exported dried chillies is about 14%. In winter, the average temperature in northern China is about 0 degrees Celsius. Dried chilies can be stored for a long time and are exported in ordinary containers.In summer, dried chilies will be placed in a cold-air warehouse at minus 5 degrees, and the time from the delivery of raw materials to the completion of finished product processing and loading does not exceed 2 days, and use of refrigerated containers can ensure that the chillies will not deteriorate and rot during shipping.
When the container arrives at the port, it should be transferred to the cold-air warehouse in time for storage, and temperature monitoring should be strengthened to prevent rot.
