Asia-Pacific: The Fastest-Growing Market for Health Ingredients
"Health Ingredients Market by Type (Vitamins, Minerals, Prebiotics, Nutritional Lipids, Functional Carbohydrates ,Plant and fruit extracts, Enzymes, Probiotic Starter Cultures, Proteins), Application , Source ,and Region - Global forecast to 2022", In 2016, the health ingredients market was valued at USD 67.98 Billion and projected to reach USD 101.32 Billion by 2022, growing at a CAGR of 6.96% from 2017 to 2022.
The market is driven by shift in consumer preference from nutrition-based to health-specific food and increasing incidences of chronic disease. Moreover, growing research & development activities and rising demand for fortified food & beverage and animal feed applications are also driving the market.
The prebiotic starter cultures segment is expected to be the fastest growing segment in the health ingredients market during the forecast period 2017-2022, due to increasing consumer awareness about various health benefits of consumption of probiotics. The multifunctionality of probiotics finds broad spectrum of applications such as animal feed, dairy beverages, and gut health function-specific food products.
The plant segment accounted for the largest share in the health ingredients market, in terms of value, in 2016. Plant-based health ingredients are a major source of vitamins, proteins, and other health ingredients for vegans and for the consumers with allergy with various animal derived ingredients, worldwide. High nutritional profile, low carbon footprint, and easy availability of plant- and vegetable-based health ingredients are significantly driving the consumption of these health ingredients.
Leading companies are Koninklijke DSM N.V. (Netherlands), Kerry Group (Ireland), E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (Wilmington, U.S.), and Archer Daniels Midland Company (U.S.).
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