One of the main characteristics of Chinese food culture is "heavy seasoning". The formation of hot pot seasoning is inseparable from the use of seasoning. "The beauty of food depends on the taste, and the taste depends on the seasoning." It can be said that without seasoning, cooking has not developed rapidly. But times are changing, consumption is changing, and traditional seasonings need innovation. Customized seasonings will surely become the development trend of the market.

1. Functional health of customized seasonings

Consumers are paying more and more attention to health, safety and nutrition, and their research on the impact of food ingredients on health is also deepening, and they expect to be more in line with the current development trend of healthy consumption. At the same time, consumers prefer to buy products without preservatives, pigments or genetically modified organisms. The price of healthy seasonings is also significantly higher than that of ordinary seasonings. Seasonings have been developing rapidly towards health and functionality, which will further push up industry prices.

2. Personalized packaging of customized seasonings

Consumer demand is no longer limited to traditional seasoning itself, and new power has put forward new requirements for the packaging design of seasonings. Personalized and fashionable seasonings have become a potential demand. In recent years, domestic and foreign food companies have made innovations in food packaging, and have continuously introduced a variety of new packaging such as aseptic packaging and modified atmosphere packaging. Many merchants have also fully considered the issues of light protection and stability when producing packaging. Green packaging has become a development trend because it has zero pollution to the ecological environment, is harmless to human health, can be reused and recycled many times, and can promote the sustainable development of social economy.

3. Various customized seasonings

The rapid development of the hot pot base catering industry has brought about a synergistic effect from catering stores to household consumption, forming a larger catering industry. If necessary, seasonings and customized products can be made in the catering industry. At the same time, according to the development trend of household consumption, the terminal products are guided by the development trend of catering, such as Sichuan cuisine, Cantonese cuisine, Shandong cuisine, Su cuisine and other famous dishes seasonings, as well as compound seasonings specially used for mixed vegetables, soy sauce noodles, boiled shrimp, fried chicken seasonings and various seasonings, which will be one of the main directions for the rapid development of seasonings in the future.