In various newspapers and websites, you will see such advertisements:
Garlic turns into gold to run allicin factory, which is not limited by season, with small investment, low cost and great profit. Investment 1000 yuan can organize production. The international market demand is large and sustainable, which is suitable for small and medium-sized enterprises, urban and rural residents and garlic farmers to set up factories. The purchase price of garlic is 3-6 yuan/kg, and the recovery price of allicin is 860 yuan/kg.
According to the calculation of one production line every day, processing 100 kg of garlic every day can make a monthly profit of more than 30,000 yuan and an annual profit of 500,000 yuan! "Garlicin can be produced and sold, with unlimited prospects". You only need to pay an initial fee of 5,800 yuan (6,800 yuan) to process allicin with patented technology, and you can make money without worry!
These companies all over China, such as Beijing, Wuhan, Tianjin and Chongqing, all claim that their products are exported in large quantities and recycled under the banner of international enterprise groups, attracting many small investors who want to get rid of poverty but have little money to join. But what about the real situation?
According to the report of Beijing Jinghua Times, from June, 5438 to October, 2005 10, an advertisement of "promoting the processing technology of allicin powder" and promising to "recycle allicin powder" was broadcast on China Education TV and several provincial TV stations, attracting many people who want to get rich all over the country. However, when dozens of "franchisees" from Shandong, Ningxia, Hebei, Tianjin and other places came to Beijing to inspect with processed garlic powder, they found that the three Beijing companies that released this advertisement had gone empty.
According to Chutian Metropolis Daily in Wuhan, in March 2004, Mr. Li, the mayor of Wuhan, received letters from people in Xinjiang, Henan, Shaanxi and other places one after another, saying that he saw an advertisement published by Norrback Garlic Preparation Technology Company in Wuhan in the local media: "Garlicin is produced with quick investment, and the products are underwritten by the company". So, they rushed to Wuhan and signed an agreement with the company after paying an initial fee of more than 5,200 yuan. Who knows, they went home to open a factory, made allicin, contacted the company to buy it, and the company was gone. Mayor Li carefully reviewed this instruction. The Wuhan Industrial and Commercial Department, together with the police, made a surprise inspection of the office space of "Norbek" located in Room 706, Ganneng Building, Hanyang Avenue, only to find that the company no longer exists. According to the building management, "Norrback" has been closed for a long time.
It can be seen that the scam of garlic processing and recycling began to appear as early as a few years ago, not only now, but also the number of newly deceived people is increasing. I believe that many deceived people do not know much about allicin when they choose the processing project of allicin. So, is the garlic processing project really "small investment, big money" as they advertised?
What is allicin?
China is one of the major producers of garlic, accounting for a quarter of the world's total annual output. For a long time, China mainly sells fresh garlic, with few deep-processed products and relatively low economic benefits. Foreign countries, especially the United States, Britain, Japan and other developed countries attach great importance to the deep processing of garlic. Especially with the development of modern medicine, people pay more and more attention to garlic, and the development of garlic products has become a trend.
Garlic contains more than 30 kinds of flavor substances, mainly sulfur-containing compounds, mainly diallyl trisulfide, diallyl trisulfide, methylallyl trisulfide, methylallyl disulfide and allyl sulfide. In the presence of trace dissolved oxygen, alliinase produces allicin.
It is not feasible to process allicin by hand workshop alone.
Allicin is an extremely unstable organic sulfide, which is easy to degrade. Almost completely decomposed after 20 hours at room temperature (20℃), and decomposed faster when heated. Allicin is very unstable, and it is very difficult to extract and preserve it. At present, the main methods for extracting allicin are steam distillation, solvent extraction and supercritical CO2 extraction. The extraction rate and purity of allicin by the first two methods are very low, and the allicin extracted by supercritical fluid has the best stability, the highest yield and the best quality. The extraction rate can reach more than 92%, and the purity of allicin can reach 84%.
It can be seen that it is not advisable to take the form of decentralized processing (manual workshop) for allicin extraction. Not to mention that the product quality is not up to standard, decentralized extraction consumes a lot of energy, plus labor costs and transportation costs, it is impossible to make money. Regular factories generally receive tons of materials every time (this is still a small factory), and the investment of regular garlic manufacturers is also several million yuan or even tens of millions of yuan.
Garlicin processing and recycling is to defraud the franchise fee.
It is understood that nutrients such as carbohydrates, protein and trace elements in garlic account for about 15% of its weight, crude fiber accounts for about 15%, and moisture accounts for about 70%, of which garlic oil accounts for about 0.24%-0.3%. The extracted garlic oil can be made into health capsules and put on the market. Other nutrients in garlic granules after garlic oil extraction are not destroyed, and can be well preserved, and can be used to prepare allicin or garlic powder, and used as additives for food, beverage and cosmetics. The residue after garlic oil extraction can be used as feed additive after effective treatment. Therefore, the effective comprehensive utilization of garlic can make money. According to the price estimation at home and abroad in recent years, the price of allicin is about 100 yuan/kg, and the price of garlic oil is about 300 yuan/kg. However, it is impossible to reach the recovery price promised by investment promotion, and their purpose is only to lure people into being fooled, so as to defraud the franchise fee. As for product recycling, it is just another bait.