Small Seafood like Fish, Shrimp, and Shellfish: Pain Points and Explosive Product Development in Prepared Meals

Published 2025년 6월 19일

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Key Insight: For players in the aquatic pre-prepared food market, the ability to innovate dishes, capture emerging flavor trends, and industrially reproduce taste and texture are critical to creating hit products. Currently, aquatic pre-prepared foods can be categorized into six product types: fish, shrimp, small shellfish, abalone and sea cucumber, frog, and other niche categories. This article will analyze the pain points and breakthrough points for manufacturing hit products in fish, shrimp, and small shellfish categories.

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Currently, the aquatic pre-made meal market's main players consist of five categories of actors: aquatic supply chain enterprises, frozen food companies, professional pre-made meal enterprises, catering businesses, and fresh e-commerce companies. It is not difficult to observe that these five types of participants are not entirely independent of each other, but rather interlock and permeate various stages of the pre-made meal industry chain, forming a close collaborative network that jointly promotes the industry's healthy development. From the perspective of key aquatic pre-made meal enterprises' industry chain coverage, sales channels basically encompass B-end markets. Against the backdrop of large-scale restaurant development, traditional on-site preparation or central kitchen supply models struggle to meet large catering enterprises' demands for digital menu management, food safety control, and standardized supply—making pre-made meals an inevitable choice for scaled ...

Source: Foodmate