Chengdu Root Food Co., Ltd.

Chengdu Root researches, produces and sells konjac products: konjac gum, konjac flour and refined konjac flour. Over more than twenty years the business has grown into a group comprising Chengdu Root Industrial, Chengdu Root Food, a konjac processing factory in Yunnan and its own konjac planting base, so raw tuber supply and processing are held within the same organisation.

The company distinguishes its grades by purity and particle size. Konjac gum runs 75 to 87 percent glucomannan, or 85 to 98 percent on a dry basis, at around 120 mesh, with higher viscosity and transparency and faster hydration and gelation than standard konjac powder. Refined konjac flour is produced by continuous wet processing of fresh konjac followed by alcohol treatment, giving over 75 percent glucomannan at 60 to 120 mesh with good dispersion and a stable hydrosol.

Applications given are beverages, meat products, dairy, soy products, frozen food, jelly and pudding, chocolate jelly, jam, confectionery and flour products, as a thickener and stabiliser, a binder in noodles and meatballs, a gelling agent in soft candy and imitation foods, a beer foam stabiliser and a clarifier for juice and alcoholic drinks. Konjac gum is often used with carrageenan, where the two polysaccharides gel synergistically.

Products are certified to ISO 22000 and HACCP with MUI Halal and Kosher certification, and the company is a member of the China Konjac Association. Exports go to the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan and Southeast Asia. The office is at No. 107 Jinli West Road in Chengdu and the factory is in the Peng Town industrial area.