The solids content of food plays a multi-faceted role in the food industry, which are essential to ensure the quality and safety of food and to meet consumer needs. Whether the content of solids in food is required is based on its specific implementation standards, and the solids of different foods have different meanings. Antion sorted out the content of solids, focusing on the relevant requirements of insoluble solids, for enterprises reference and learning.

01 Definition

According to the Fundamental Terms of Food Industry, solids refer to a all residues remaining after removing water from food, b the solid part of food containing solid and liquid substances, excluding soluble solid.

The solids are divided into soluble solids and insoluble solids.

02 Requirements for labeling

According to GB 7718-2011 National Food Safety Standard General Standard for the Labeling of Prepackaged Foods, 4.1.5.6 In the case of a solid food packed in a liquid medium, and the solid food are the major ingredient of the food, in addition to the declaration of net contents, the drained (solid) contents shall also be marked in weight or percentage. What's more, according to Article 48 of the Q&As (revised) of GB 7718-2011 National Food Safety Standard General Standard for the Labeling of Prepackaged Foods, prepackaged foods with solid and liquid phases and in which the solid phase substance is the main food ingredient should be marked the drained (solid) contents in weight or percentage near the "net content".

03 Labeling form

According to Appendix C of GB 7718-2011 National Food Safety Standard General Standard for the Labeling of Prepackaged Foods, C.2.2 Net contents and drained weight (solids) may have following labeling forms (taking "canned pear syrup" as the example): Net contents (or net contents /configuration): 425 g drained weight (or solids or pear pieces): not less than 255 g (or not less than 60%).

04 What kind of products need to be marked with the content of solids?

According to GB 7718-2011 National Food Safety Standard General Standard for the Labeling of Prepackaged Foods, in the case of a solid food packed in a liquid medium, and the solid food are the major ingredient of the food, the content of solids should be marked, such as canned food.

According to Article 48 of the Q&As (revised) of GB 7718-2011 National Food Safety Standard General Standard for the Labeling of Prepackaged Foods, regarding the labeling of the content of solids whose solid and liquid phase cannot be clearly distinguished. Prepackaged foods with semi-solid, sticky food, solid and liquid phase as the main food ingredients, or in suspension, solid and liquid mixture and other cannot clearly distinguish solid and liquid phase products do not need to mark the drained (solid) contents. Due to its own characteristics, prepackaged food may present different forms of solid and liquid at different temperatures or other conditions, which does not belong to solid and liquid two-phase food, such as honey and edible oil.

For ingredients that do not exhibit different solid and liquid forms at different temperatures due to their inherent characteristics, such as prepackaged spinal cord of cattle with drinking water added as an ingredient for freezing spinal cord, the content of solids should be marked based on the principle of truth and accuracy.

Enterprises should understand and be familiar with the relevant standards and regulation requirements of the content of solids in foods, establish and implement a strict solids content control system, and ensure that the food produced meets the relevant standards and regulation requirements through strict monitoring and testing of raw materials, production processes and products.

Source: Antion

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