Youngin Bio CEO Choi In-jeong, “People and companion animals make a healthy world”

Hippocrates, the father of medicine, said, “A disease that cannot be cured by food cannot be cured by medicine.”
As such, the importance of eating three meals a day is emerging, but busy modern people are exposed to various diseases as they get closer to instant and bad food.
Youngin Bio (CEO In-Jeong Choi), an agricultural corporation, is focusing on the management of food and pet food businesses based on the fermentation method of traditional foods under the management philosophy of making honest products with the right ingredients from the Jeonbuk region.
We met Choi In-jeong, CEO of Youngin Bio, who is creating a world where people and companion animals are healthy with an honest mind that puts consumers first and continuous R&D.

Introduced products that are especially good for elderly dogs

‘Chef’s Sauce’ provides a dining table that is as good as a restaurant at the table of a family through honest selection of ingredients from the Jeonbuk region and the recipes of Chef In-seon Choi who considers taste and health. Based on a manufacturing method that maximizes the natural taste, green tea leachate was used instead of salt, and blue crab paste, salmon paste, boneless crab paste, smoked prawn paste, blue crab meat, etc. were launched using a sanitary and systematic production process. CEO In-Jeong Choi launched ‘Chef’s Sauce’ with the purpose of globalizing Korea’s unique pickled foods, and made a soft landing in overseas markets by exporting to Japan, the Philippines, China, Hong Kong, Canada, Singapore, and the United Arab Emirates.

“There is a reason why I made pet food through the ‘Dr.Patpat’ ​​brand. This is because humans are acting selfishly towards dogs and cats by giving them the plausible name of ‘companion’. Puppies and cats should primarily be outdoors. Leaving them indoors will fatally cause disease. Not only skin diseases, but also because of the lack of exercise, visceral fat accumulates and constipation occurs. Also, indoor floors are slippery, which can also cause dislocation of the kneecap. So, with a sense of apologetics, I am helping animal friends to prevent diseases in advance by injecting dietary fiber, lactic acid bacteria, collagen, etc. at once.”

Youngin Bio’s companion animal brand, Dr.Patpat, introduced ‘Doctor Plus’, a comprehensive nutritional supplement to solve chronic problems of companion animals as the first product. This product contains collagen, lactic acid bacteria, and dietary fiber, so it is possible to comprehensively manage the nutrition of companion animals. It uses low-molecular-weight collagen made through a patented low-molecular-weight peptide method to promote absorption, prevent patellar dislocation, joint prevention and cartilage strengthening, hair growth, and It has skin improvement properties. In addition, functional nutritional supplements ‘Masitdanggae’ and ‘Masitgoyang’ were also launched. Mashitdanggae contains green leaf mussels and aloe vera, which is good for joints and skin, and Mashitdanggae contains aronia, taurine, and omega 3 to help improve eye health. In addition to this, Dr.Patpat also introduced ‘Ansim Daengmyeon’, a ramen for dogs. Unlike conventional ramen, Ansim Daengmyeon, the only ramen for dogs in Korea, uses less wheat flour as much as possible, and uses white sticky rice barley, whole wheat, and rice flour, which are local agricultural products from Gunsan, which are rich in beta-glucan, a type of dietary fiber, and vitamin B group. In consideration of the taste and health, this product uses blackfish rich in amino acids, protein, and collagen, and the soup contains live lactic acid bacteria, which helps your pet’s intestinal health and digestive function. In particular, all products released by the Dr.Patpat brand are good for elderly dogs. This is because the noodles are soft enough for elderly dogs with bad teeth to eat, as well as live lactic acid bacteria that help digestion, helping digestion and defecation. In the future, CEO In-Jeong Choi expressed the idea of ​​spurring research on products that can restore the health of companion animals exposed to diseases and deterioration due to aging.

It will help your dog’s health

“We are a social enterprise and a social venture company. Youngin Bio is a company that creates jobs and coexists with the local community by solving local issues together. In particular, the field we are most interested in in social issues is the issue of abandoned dogs. When you become an abandoned dog, you can’t really take care of your health. We are supplying 20 million won worth of nutritional supplements and feeds to the abandoned dog association every year to help even a little bit about the health of abandoned dogs.”

In addition, Youngin Bio is also making innovative products containing live lactic acid bacteria and collagen to respond to the requests of industry officials to develop domestic products that can replace medication supplements for well-care. Choi In-jeong, CEO of Youngin Bio, who said that the development is currently in the final stage, expressed his wish that this new product to be introduced in the future will also be helpful to companion animals. Through this, it is hoped that companion animals and companions, as well as the local community, will become a happy world.