[INQ. NO. 1407C20] Beolgyo, located at southern Korea peninsula is famous for its cockles, which are known as one of the most popular health foods in Korea.
The Beolgyo cockles are high-protein and low-fat healthy food. As an alkaline food, cockles are largely comprised of protein up to 23% and contain plentiful essential nutrients. In particular, cockles are good for preventing anemia and stimulating growth due to their high content of natural hemoglobin, calcium and iron, and thus they are good for women and growing children.
They contain a variety of nutrients such as essential amino acids and taurine or betaine, which are known to assist in liver detoxification, including hangover caused by heavy drinking.
The taurine helps promotes fat metabolism so prevents the sebaceous liver and helps lower cholesterol, while betaine makes the bile acid which plays a very important role for fat metabolism secrete well, and also prevents damage of the liver cell.
Furthermore, cockles have vitamin B complex including B12, and cobalt, being good particularly for women, the elderly and people with poor health during the winter season.
The taste and nutrition of the cockles produced in a widely clean tidal flat Beolgyo, Jeollanam-do are so famous in Korea that they have been registered as the number 1 of the Geographical Indication System of marine products.
Since Beolgyocockles., Ltd. is operating a cockle farm covering about 100ha and harvests about 25t of cockles daily. And, to minimize costs occurred in the course of distribution, it handles everything from the original production to processing and delivery. Priority is given to the foods’ hygiene and safety. The company constantly considers the customer first and manufactures food for the health of customers.
The Korean company provides not only live cockles (during late October and early June) but also dried cockles and exuviated cockles.
In addition, one of the company popular items is cockle gochujang (red pepper paste) that is made by cooking the Korean red pepper paste and cockles. It contains 35% cockles and 65% red pepper paste.
Main Products are as follows
Dried cockles with Agave syrup
– Dried by 90°C hot air dryer for 15 minutes
– No salt, very sweet
– application: edible with any food, nice and suitable for drinking beer while watching TV
Exuviated cockles
– 5kg of frozen pack
– Delivery by icebox is available
– Application : seafood pasta, add to spaghetti, applicable in a variety of cuisine
– It is available all the year round
Live cockles (20kg)
– Daily production capacity: 30,000kg (1,500 nets)
– Picking and delivery on the same day
– Cockles live for around 5 days
– It is available during the end of October and early June
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