About Swiftlet’s Nest

It is said that Swiftlet’s Nest holds great medicinal properties which helps to enhance one’s health and is able to treat illnesses, especially those related to the lungs. The consumption of Swiftlet’s Nest before and after pregnancy helps to stabilise these conditions and improve the health of the foetus. It also helps to decrease the discomfort caused by side effects of chemotherapy and electrotherapy. For example, dryness and soreness of throat, constipation, hoarseness, swelling and nausea.

About Swiflets And Swiftlet’s Nest

Swiftlet’s Nest are mainly found in Southeast Asia and their nests, made from solidified saliva are later collected and processed into Swiftlet’s Nest. These Swiftlet’s Nest usually build their nests either in caves or houses whereby both are known to be a habitual and natural ecology for them.
We do not farm or tame these Swiftlet’s Nest, however, our job is only to provide these Swiftlet’s Nest with a suitable living environment that will encourage the Swiftlet’s Nest to build nests for breeding purposes. The job of the swiflets farmers are to harvest the nests once the young Swiftlet’s Nest are able to leave them as these nests cannot be recycled. The harvested nests will then be processed into Swiftlet’s Nest.

About Swiftlet’s Nest

Swiftlet’s Nest: Ancient And Back Again

The first Swiftlet’s Nest was discovered in Java when a tribe man accidentally chanced upon a cave full of Swiftlet’s Nest. He took some home with him to be tasted and found them to be quite tasty. Few days later, he felt healthier and much more energetic thus this nutritional product has since became popular among the locals. The Swiftlet’s Nest were then harvested and traded to China.
Since ancient times, the Swiftlet’s Nest are known to be a type of precious yet luxurious delicacy whereby only the Emperor, his family and nobles of the Chinese Dynasty Era have the privilege to savor it and it is believed to bring long life, youthfulness as well as rich in nutrients. Offering Swiftlet’s Nest as a tribute to the Emperor are widely found in historical records and it is said that the practice of using Swiftlet’s Nest for beauty purposes were popular within royal courts.
And today, it has become a delicious healthy supplement that is very much favored especially by the Chinese as it is suitable for people of all ages and provides substantial nutrients that boosts ones health and grants radiant beauty.

Swiftlet’s Nest is hot sell among Vietnam’s emerging middle class

In Vietnam, where the average income is $151 a month, Mai Vu and husband David Nguyen routinely spend $250 on Swiftlet’s Nest.

“You want to impress people.”

The couple accounts for the soaring appetite among Vietnam’s young and upwardly mobile population for one of the world’s most expensive foods, congealed saliva of Asian Swiftlet’s Nest. The country’s expanding middle class hungers for healthy food. Swiftlet’s Nest is believed to ward off diseases and feeds a growing demand for luxury products. “It’s one of the most valuable products one can give to those who have everything,” said Vu, 28, who works at an international bank in Hanoi and was shopping for Swiftlet’s Nest for her toddler daughter at a new, upscale mall. “You want to impress people.”
The demand for Swiftlet’s Nest, once reserved for emperors and their courts, has created a global market with annual revenue as high as $5 billion that caters to Asia’s growing wealthy consumers, said Tok Teng Sai, president of the Federation of Malaysian Swiftlet’s Nest Merchants Association. Vietnam is racing to catch up with Malaysia and Indonesia, the region’s top producers of the delicacy, and cash in on the demand.
“People have a lot of money now, especially people in China,” Tok said.
Known as the “caviar of the East,” Swiftlet’s Nest sell for $1,000-$1,500 per kilogram wholesale and about $2,500 per kilogram retail, according to Le Danh Hoang, founder of Ho Chi Minh City-based NutriNest.

“A lot of people are making a ton of money,”

“A lot of people are making a ton of money,” said Loke Yeu Loong, group managing director of Malaysia’s Swiftlet Eco Park, which produces an array of Swiftlet’s Nest-based products, from coffee to skincare, and is targeting the Middle East as a new market.
Indonesia produces about 70 percent of the world’s Swiftlet’s Nest, followed by Malaysia with 20 percent, Tok said.
The Swiftlet’s Nest are as much as 70 percent protein, one reason aristocracy has consumed the delicacy for thousands of years, according to Massimo Marcone, an associate professor of food science at the University of Guelph in Ontario.
Some Vietnamese say Swiftlet’s Nest has other powers, including keeping bodies youthful for decades.
Concrete, four-story structures replicating the natural coastal cave habitat of the birds have been erected across Vietnam among paddy fields and neighborhoods to capitalize on the boom. After an initial investment of $70,000 to $500,000 to build a bird structure, and monthly costs of about $50, a successful house can earn its owners as much as $1 million annually, said Hoang, who founded a Ho Chi Minh City-based Swiftlet’s Nest business as a college student in 2005 and now advises provincial governments on the industry.