Star Lake Bioscience Co., Inc. Zhaoqing Guangdong

Food ingredients and nutrition · Zhaoqing, Guangdong

About Star Lake Bioscience Co., Inc. Zhaoqing Guangdong

Star Lake Bioscience, headquartered in Zhaoqing, Guangdong, is a Chinese bio-fermentation and biochemical engineering company with origins in 1964 as an agricultural microorganism plant and a historic monosodium glutamate producer. Listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange since 1994, it operates its Star Lake brand for food and feed and its Yue Bao brand for the pharmaceutical line.

Its food series focuses on flavour ingredients: disodium 5'-ribonucleotide (I+G), disodium inosinate (IMP), disodium guanylate (GMP) and fructose syrups F42, F55 and F60, used by manufacturers of seasonings, sauces, snacks and processed foods to strengthen umami and adjust sweetness. Its feed series supplies fermentation amino acids such as L-lysine, L-threonine and L-valine.

The company maintains a national R&D centre and a post-doctoral research station, and presents its activities, products and corporate data on an official website with an English section. For food formulators, Star Lake is one of China's veteran producers of nucleotides and fermentation flavour enhancers.

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