Aohe
Foods
Sweet and waxy corn on the cob from Tonghua County in the Changbai mountain belt of Jilin, sold two ways: individually frozen cobs and kernels held at −18 °C, and retort-processed cobs in a vacuum pouch that need no cold chain at all. The company was registered in 2007, the registry read is done, and it holds a food production licence valid to February 2028 that covers both categories — the frozen one and the canned fruit-and-vegetable one the vacuum cobs actually sit in. Four further certificates, including an SGS-issued ISO 22000, have expired; each is listed below with its number and the date it lapsed, because that is what a buyer needs to see.
Two product lines, two regulatory paths.
Frozen Sweet & Waxy Corn on the Cob
Whole cobs husked, trimmed, blanched and frozen. The company photographs four cob lines — white waxy, yellow waxy, multi-colour (花系) waxy and sweet corn — packed in printed retail film. This line sits under the frozen-food category of the production licence (quick-frozen other foods, class 1103). Net weight per pack, cob length and diameter grades, blanching schedule, declared shelf life and the storage temperature it assumes are not provided; ask for a specification sheet per variety.
Frozen Corn Kernels
Kernels cut from the same cobs and frozen, the format bought by food manufacturers and food-service packers rather than retail. Photographed as a finished retail pack; bulk pack sizes, kernel size grade, free-flow (IQF) versus block freezing, and defect and foreign-body tolerances are not provided. For an industrial buyer these are the specification, so ask for them before comparing prices.
Vacuum-Packed Corn on the Cob — Shelf Stable
Cobs sealed in a vacuum pouch and heat-processed so they keep at ambient temperature with no cold chain. White, yellow, multi-colour and black waxy and sweet varieties are photographed. This line is licensed under the canned fruit and vegetable category (class 0902, ‘canned vegetables: other’), not the frozen category — the licence detail sheet lists both. That distinction is not cosmetic: it changes the customs heading, the duty rate and, for the United States, whether a low-acid canned food filing is required. See the FAQ.
Own Brand — ‘Aohe’
The company owns Chinese trademark No. 46930744 for 奥禾 (Aohe) in class 30, registered 2021-04-14 and valid to 2031-04-13, covering processed cereals and processed corn among other goods. Retail packs in the photographs carry this brand. Whether plain, buyer-branded or private-label packing is offered, and whether the brand is registered in any market outside China, is not stated — a class 30 Chinese registration gives no protection abroad.
Own Growing Base
The company states it plants 15,000 mu (about 1,000 hectares) of fresh-eating corn a year and photographs its own fields and harvest. For a buyer this is the part that matters upstream: whether the raw material is contracted, and whether residue testing happens at the field or only at the finished product. Neither is documented. Contract-farming agreements, field records and a residue test plan have not been supplied.
What the registry confirms, and what stays open.
A Limited Company Registered in 2007 — Registry Read
The registry was read on 2026-09-23: 通化奥禾食品有限公司, a limited company with a single natural-person shareholder, registered 2007-02-08 and active (存续), registered capital RMB 5 million, registering authority Tonghua County Market Supervision Administration, registered premises 999 Ying’ebu Street, Ying’ebu town, Tonghua County. The 18-digit credit code passes the GB 32100 check digit; its 91 prefix denotes a company and the 220521 division code matches Tonghua County. No former names are recorded. Nineteen years of continuous registration is itself a fact worth checking against, and it checks out.
Scope Covers Food Production and Goods Export
The current registered scope, last approved 2024-11-03, reads in part, verbatim: licensed items 食品生产；食品销售 (food production; food sales), and among general items 食用农产品初加工；谷物种植；货物进出口 (primary processing of edible agricultural products; grain growing; import and export of goods). Production and export are therefore both within what the company is registered to do. The scope was broadened in 2024 and now also carries health-food production, medicinal-herb growing and trading and edible-fungus growing, for which no product has been shown; listed here because the scope says so, not because there is anything behind it.
Production Licence Covers Both Product Lines — and Is Current
Food production licence SC11122052132112, issued 2023-02-15 by Tonghua County Market Supervision Administration, valid to 2028-02-14, in this company’s name and at this address. Its detail sheet lists two categories: quick-frozen foods (class 1103, quick-frozen other foods) and canned goods (class 0902, canned fruit and vegetables — canned vegetables: other). Both product lines on this page are inside it. This is the one certificate a Chinese food processor cannot operate without, and it is the one that is live.
Four Certificates Have Expired — Numbers and Dates Below
As of 2026-09-23, four of the documents the company circulates have passed their expiry date: the SGS-issued ISO 22000:2018 food safety management certificate (expired 2025-07-04), the ISO 9001:2015 quality certificate (expired 2025-10-11), and both Green Food A-grade product certificates (both expired 2025-08-10). The food business (retail) licence expired 2026-04-05; it governs selling pre-packaged food, not producing it, so it does not affect the production licence above. None of this is stated in the company’s own introduction deck, which presents all of them as current. Renewal status has not been supplied; it is the first thing to ask.
Certificates a Buyer Can Actually Check
Unusually for this product category, every document is numbered and the numbers are on this page: production licence SC11122052132112, trademark 46930744, Green Food product codes LB-06-22080708415A and LB-06-22080708413A under enterprise information code GF220521183330, ISO 22000 certificate CN22/00001725 (SGS United Kingdom Ltd, UKAS-accredited, external reference F01FSMS2200058) and ISO 9001 certificate 830Q2200125R1. A buyer can verify each one at its issuing body rather than taking a logo on a brochure on trust — including the expired ones, whose lapse is equally checkable.
Plant, Cold Store and Growing Area — as Stated
The company states a 26,396 m² site with 14,670 m² of buildings, a 5,000 m² low-temperature cold store, 15,000 mu of fresh-eating corn planted annually, annual processing capacity of 15,000 tonnes, total assets of RMB 80 million, six mid-to-senior technical staff and an electronic traceability system. It photographs its own fields, a husking and root-cutting line, frozen and vacuum packing rooms and the cold store. None of these figures has been independently verified, and two of them conflict with other records — see the next item.
Two Figures That Do Not Reconcile
Capacity: the introduction deck states annual processing capacity of 15,000 tonnes, while the two Green Food certificates carry approved output of 25,367 tonnes (frozen corn) and 12,000 tonnes (vacuum-packed cobs), 37,367 tonnes together — about 2.5 times the stated capacity. Approved output on a Green Food certificate is a ceiling applied for, not production achieved, so the two are not necessarily in conflict, but the gap is large enough to ask about. Headcount: the deck states 100-plus permanent staff and 400-plus seasonal workers; the registry’s employee-count band reads under 50. Seasonal processing explains part of it; the split is not documented. Both figures are printed here as they were found, unreconciled.
Registry Risk Record — Read the Direction
Thirteen current self-risk items, zero peripheral, eight historical, five alerts, as of 2026-09-23. Eleven of the thirteen current items are court filings in which this company is the plaintiff — hearing and service notices and one sales-contract judgment where it sued a counterparty, the ordinary shape of a wholesaler chasing payment. Two are not: one environmental penalty and one parcel of land under mortgage. The historical record adds three past administrative penalties, one equity pledge since released, and two matters in which the company was the defendant, one a workplace-injury liability claim. Case numbers and penalty references are held in the ChinaMakersHub file, not published here. The environmental penalty and the land mortgage are the two a buyer should raise directly.
What was checked — and what the check found.
The registry read is done and the production licence is live. On 2026-09-23 the record for 通化奥禾食品有限公司 was pulled from a Chinese enterprise-data source: a limited company registered 2007-02-08, active, registered capital RMB 5 million, registered industry food manufacturing, at 999 Ying’ebu Street, Ying’ebu town, Tonghua County. The scope carries food production, primary processing of edible agricultural products and the import and export of goods. Food production licence SC11122052132112 runs to 2028-02-14 and covers both the frozen category and the canned fruit-and-vegetable category the vacuum-packed cobs sit in. Four further certificates have expired — ISO 22000 on 2025-07-04, both Green Food A-grade certificates on 2025-08-10, ISO 9001 on 2025-10-11 — and the retail food business licence lapsed on 2026-04-05. They are listed above with their numbers because an expired certificate is a checkable fact, not a blank. The company’s own introduction deck presents all of them as current; no renewal document has been supplied. The risk record shows one environmental penalty and one parcel of land under mortgage alongside eleven filings in which this company is the plaintiff. What would move the file forward: the renewal status of the four expired certificates, a specification sheet and a third-party residue and microbiology report for each product line, the customs registration number as an exporting food producer, and, for any ambient-stable shipment to the United States, the FDA food canning establishment registration and scheduled process filing.
A Jilin corn processor, with its paperwork laid out.
Aohe Foods is the CMH listing name for 通化奥禾食品有限公司, a limited company registered on 2007-02-08 in Ying’ebu town, Tonghua County, Jilin, and active on the register. It has no registered English name; “Tonghua Aohe Food Co., Ltd.” is a transliteration. An official registry read on 2026-09-23 confirms the company is active, with registered capital of RMB 5 million and a scope covering food production, primary processing of edible agricultural products and the import and export of goods.
It makes one crop two ways. Frozen sweet and waxy corn — whole cobs and kernels — and vacuum-packed cobs that are heat-processed to keep at ambient temperature. Its food production licence, SC11122052132112, runs to February 2028 and covers both the quick-frozen category and the canned fruit-and-vegetable category, which is the one the vacuum-packed line actually sits in. The company states it plants 15,000 mu of fresh-eating corn a year, works a 26,396 m² site with a 5,000 m² cold store, and runs an electronic traceability system; those are its figures, not verified ones, and two of them do not reconcile with other records on file.
What sets this listing apart is that the documents are numbered and the numbers are published: the production licence, the trademark, two Green Food product codes, an SGS-issued ISO 22000 and an ISO 9001 certificate can each be checked at the body that issued them. Four of them have expired, and that is stated here with the dates rather than left to a logo on a brochure. Three disciplines frame any engagement. Specification: ask for a sheet per item before comparing prices, because nothing on net weight, grade or shelf life has been supplied. Evidence: ask for a third-party residue and microbiology report against your own market’s limits, and for the current status of the four expired certificates. Route: decide early whether you are buying the frozen line or the ambient line, because they carry different customs headings, different duty and, for the United States, different filings. Contact routes through ChinaMakersHub; direct details are exchanged after first inquiry.
Registered 2007, on the record.
Registered in Tonghua County, Jilin
The company is registered on 2007-02-08 as a limited company with a single natural-person shareholder, registered capital RMB 5 million, at 999 Ying’ebu Street. Confirmed on the registry; no former names on record.
The county is designated an export quality-and-safety demonstration zone
A plaque in the company’s deck records the national-level export food and agricultural product quality and safety demonstration zone for corn, reviewed December 2013. Its own text names the area as the townships of Tonghua County and the responsible body as the Tonghua County People’s Government — the designation is the county’s, not this company’s. It is a real signal about where the crop comes from, attributed here to the party that actually holds it.
Trademark and production licence
Trademark No. 46930744 for 奥禾 in class 30 is registered 2021-04-14, valid to 2031-04-13. The current food production licence SC11122052132112 is issued 2023-02-15, valid to 2028-02-14, covering quick-frozen foods and canned fruit and vegetables.
Four certificates obtained — all since lapsed
ISO 22000:2018 (SGS United Kingdom Ltd, UKAS-accredited) issued 2022-07-05; two Green Food A-grade product certificates issued 2022-08-11; ISO 9001:2015 first issued 2022-08-23. Their validity ran to 2025-07-04, 2025-08-10 and 2025-10-11 respectively. All four are now past their expiry dates and no renewal has been supplied.
Materials supplied to ChinaMakersHub
A 23-page company introduction deck: plant and field photographs, the product range, six certificate scans and seven award plaques. No specification sheet, test report, price list, MOQ, customer reference or export registration number.
Registry read — listing published
On 2026-09-23 ChinaMakersHub read the registry record and published its shape: an active limited company of 19 years’ standing with food production and goods export in scope and a live production licence covering both product lines. Open and stated: the renewal status of four expired certificates, a specification sheet and test report per item, the customs registration as an exporting food producer, and the two risk items that are not litigation the company itself brought.
Where frozen and shelf-stable corn goes — and what each market asks for.
Food Manufacturers & Food Service
Frozen kernels and cut cob go into ready meals, soups, salad bars and catering packs. This buyer specifies kernel size, IQF versus block, defect tolerance and a residue certificate per lot — none of which is on file yet. Ask for the specification sheet first.
Retail & Private Label
Vacuum-packed cobs are a shelf-stable snack and side dish that needs no freezer space in store or at home, which is why it travels into markets with weak domestic cold chains. Ask about plain or buyer-branded pouches, artwork responsibility and per-market labelling.
United States — Two Different Regulatory Paths
The frozen line and the vacuum-packed line are not the same filing. Ambient-stable, hermetically sealed low-acid vegetable products require the processor to register the establishment and file the scheduled process with the FDA before shipping; the frozen line does not. Duty is a separate and heavy question — see the FAQ. Neither filing has been shown.
Korea & Japan
Both are large buyers of this product type and both sit close to Jilin. Korea requires the overseas manufacturing establishment to be registered before the import declaration is filed; Japan requires an import notification to the quarantine station and residue compliance with its positive list. Neither registration has been evidenced.
Southeast Asia & the Gulf
Singapore and Malaysia are the markets where Chinese shelf-stable corn already holds the largest share of imports, and Halal certification is commercially decisive in Malaysia and the Gulf even where it is not legally mandatory. No Halal certificate has been supplied.
Canada
A market worth separating from the United States: the two lines carry very different duty treatment across that border, and Canadian purchases of Chinese frozen corn have been growing. A Safe Food for Canadians licence sits with the importer, but the importer will ask the processor for a preventive control plan.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What does Aohe Foods make?
Sweet and waxy corn in two forms. Frozen: whole cobs and cut kernels, in white, yellow, multi-colour waxy and sweet varieties, held frozen. Shelf-stable: whole cobs sealed in a vacuum pouch and heat-processed so they keep at ambient temperature, in the same varieties plus black waxy. The company also states it grows 15,000 mu of fresh-eating corn a year on its own account.
Is it a factory or a trading company?
A factory. It is a limited company registered in 2007 whose scope includes food production and primary processing of edible agricultural products, and it holds food production licence SC11122052132112 in its own name at its own address, valid to 2028-02-14. A trading company cannot hold that licence. It photographs its own husking and root-cutting line, frozen and vacuum packing rooms and cold store; those photographs have not been independently verified.
Why does it matter that the vacuum-packed cobs are licensed as canned, not frozen?
Because three things follow from it. The Chinese production licence lists them under canned fruit and vegetables (class 0902), which is the category that authorises an ambient-stable heat-processed vegetable. In customs terms the frozen cobs and kernels fall in heading 0710.40 while the vacuum-packed cobs fall in 2005.80 — different chapters, different duty rates, and in several markets a materially different rate. And in the United States an ambient-stable, hermetically sealed low-acid vegetable product brings the processor inside the low-acid canned food rules, which require the establishment to be registered and the scheduled process filed with the FDA before shipping; the frozen line does not. Treat them as two products with two compliance files, not one product in two packs.
Which certificates are actually valid today?
Two: the food production licence SC11122052132112, valid to 2028-02-14, and the Chinese trademark No. 46930744, valid to 2031-04-13. Four have expired — the SGS-issued ISO 22000 (2025-07-04), ISO 9001 (2025-10-11) and both Green Food A-grade product certificates (2025-08-10) — and the retail food business licence lapsed on 2026-04-05. Every number and date is listed above so you can check each one at its issuing body. Renewal status has not been supplied.
Is ISO 22000 enough for a supermarket buyer?
Usually not on its own. ISO 22000 is a food safety management system standard; it is not by itself recognised by the Global Food Safety Initiative, which is the benchmark most large retailers work to. The schemes retailers typically ask for are BRCGS or FSSC 22000 — FSSC being ISO 22000 plus prerequisite programmes and additional requirements, so an existing ISO 22000 is a real head start rather than a wasted step. The distinction is not better versus worse, it is whether it satisfies the buyer’s own audit requirement. This company’s ISO 22000 has in any case expired.
Does the Green Food A-grade certificate help with export?
Not as a certification. Green Food is a Chinese domestic scheme administered by the China Green Food Development Centre and is not recognised as a standard outside China; it is not equivalent to organic and cannot be presented to an overseas buyer as an organic or food-safety credential. What it can legitimately evidence is upstream discipline — it is awarded against production and input controls at the growing stage — so it is worth describing as a farming-practice record rather than as a certificate. Both of this company’s Green Food certificates expired on 2025-08-10.
What does it cost to land this in the United States?
Duty on Chinese-origin goods in both headings is heavy and made of several layers. Under HTSUS Revision 19 (2026), checked 2026-09-23, the general rate is 14% for heading 0710.40 and 5.6% for 2005.80. Both headings appear in Chapter 99 U.S. note 20(f), the third Section 301 list, adding 25% under subheading 9903.88.03, and neither is in the exclusion list at note 2(v)(iii)(a), so the IEEPA additional duties at 9903.01.24 and 9903.01.25 add a further 10% each. That totals roughly 59% on frozen corn and 50.6% on the vacuum-packed line before freight. Rates change; verify against the current HTSUS edition and your own customs broker before quoting.
Is the ‘national export demonstration zone’ a certificate this company holds?
No, and the plaque says so on its face. The national-level export food and agricultural product quality and safety demonstration zone for corn, reviewed in December 2013, names its area as the townships of Tonghua County and its responsible body as the Tonghua County People’s Government. It is a designation held by the county, and this company sits inside it. That is a genuine and useful fact about where the crop is grown; it is not a company certification, and the company’s own deck describes it as one.
What does the risk record show?
Thirteen current items, of which eleven are court filings in which this company is the plaintiff — hearing, service and court notices and one sales-contract judgment where it sued a counterparty. For a wholesaler that is the shape of chasing payment, not of being in trouble. Two items are different in kind: one environmental penalty and one parcel of land under mortgage. The historical record adds three past administrative penalties, an equity pledge since released, and two matters in which the company was the defendant, one a workplace-injury liability claim. Raise the environmental penalty and the land mortgage directly; case references are held in the ChinaMakersHub file.
What is not confirmed yet?
The specification of every item (net weight and tolerance, cob grades, kernel size, blanching and sterilisation schedule, declared shelf life and the storage temperature it assumes), any third-party test report, MOQ, sampling and lead time, carton and pallet data, customs registration as an exporting food producer, the renewal status of the four expired certificates, and the two capacity and headcount figures that do not reconcile with other records. All of it is listed above rather than smoothed over.
Talk to Aohe Foods directly.
Send the product (frozen cob, frozen kernel or vacuum-packed cob), the variety (white, yellow, multi-colour waxy, black waxy or sweet), the pack format and net weight you need, the quantity, and the destination market. In the same message ask for four things that are not on this page: a specification sheet per item (net weight and tolerance, cob length and diameter grades, blanching and sterilisation schedule, declared shelf life and the storage temperature it assumes), a third-party residue and microbiology report against your market’s limits, the company’s customs registration number as an exporting food producer, and the current status of the ISO 22000, ISO 9001 and Green Food certificates listed below as expired. ChinaMakersHub will route the request.