Shinho () is a Chinese food manufacturer. Its products include

soy sauce Soy sauce (sometimes called soya sauce in British English) is a liquid condiment of China, Chinese origin, traditionally made from a fermentation (food), fermented paste of soybeans, roasted cereal, grain, brine, and ''Aspergillus oryzae'' or ''A ...

rice vinegar Rice vinegar is a vinegar made from rice wine in East Asia (China, Japan and Korea), as well as in Vietnam in Southeast Asia. It is used as a seasoning, dressing, and dipping in many dishes, including sushi, jiaozi, and banchans. Some of its varia ...

, and a range of classic Chinese

condiments A condiment is a preparation that is added to food, typically after cooking, to enhance the flavour, to complement the dish or to impart a specific flavor. Such specific flavors generally add sweetness or pungency, or sharp or piquant flavors. ...

, in addition to

peanut The peanut (''Arachis hypogaea''), also known as the groundnut, goober (US), goober pea, pindar (US) or monkey nut (UK), is a legume crop grown mainly for its edible seeds. It is widely grown in the tropics and subtropics by small and large ...

-based packaged snacks. The company was founded in 1992.

Soy sauce

Shinho launched China's first organic soy sauce in 2004. Shinho developed a method to ferment soy sauce using 44% less salt than with traditional methods. In its marketing, the low-salt soy sauce is advertised to have the same amount of

umami Umami ( from ), or savoriness, is one of the five basic tastes. It is characteristic of broths and cooked meats. People taste umami through taste receptors that typically respond to glutamates and nucleotides, which are widely present in me ...

as normal soy sauces.

Huang Fei Hong Peanuts

Shinho also sells spiced peanuts under the ''Huang Fei Hong'' brand. In early 2023 Taiwan banned their import citing regulations restricting the importation of foodstuffs that are also produced locally.

Awards

In 2013, its Huang Fei Hung spicy peanuts were featured in

Saveur ''Saveur'' is an online gourmet, food, wine, and travel magazine that publishes essays about various world cuisines. The publication was co-founded by Dorothy Kalins, Michael Grossman, Christopher Hirsheimer, and Colman Andrews. It was started ...

magazine's top 100 global food items. Shinho has won a

Guinness World Record ''Guinness World Records'', known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as ''The Guinness Book of Records'' and in previous United States editions as ''The Guinness Book of World Records'', is a British reference book published annually, listi ...

for making the largest display of sandwich wraps on May 30, 2014. The sandwich wraps consisted of fermented soy bean paste and

spring onion Scallions (also known as green onions and spring onions) are edible vegetables of various species in the genus ''Allium''. Scallions generally have a milder taste than most onions. Their close relatives include garlic, shallots, leeks, chive ...

wrapped in traditional Chinese

jianbing ''Jianbing'' () is a traditional Chinese street food similar to crêpes. It is a type of ''bing (bread), bing'' generally eaten for breakfast and hailed as "one of China's most popular street breakfasts." The main ingredients of ''jianbing'' a ...

References

{{Reflist Companies based in Yantai Food and drink companies of China Condiment companies of China Companies established in 1992