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Objective
The objective of this project was to assist a client in examining the attractiveness of the digestive health market and the possible development of a digestive health platform by analysing the market interest in ‘digestive health’. We also sought to determine what other opportunities exist, especially in respect of beta-glucan, resistant starch and xylo-ogliosaccharides.
Method
This project involved talking to prospective end-users about the attractiveness of the idea of a digestive health platform in principle and about their ideas on what else they might like to see and examining competitor activity both in digestive health and in the marketing approach of ‘platform’ building. We also contacted academics actively involved in the digestive health area to gather their views on digestive health products. Information from contacts was combined with in-house data and publicly available materials on markets, trends, companies and new products.
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Table of Contents
Objective and background
Method
Principal findings
- Digestive health market
- Probiotics
- Prebiotics and soluble fibres
- Functional food market trends
- Digestive health platform concept – functional food ingredient companies
- Digestive health platform concept – end users
- Beta-glucan, modified starch, XOS and others as health ingredients
- Beta-glucan
- Xylooligosaccharides
- Resistant starch
- Hydrocolloids
- Dairy ingredients
- Observations on digestive health at IFT exhibition
- Food and beverage trends
Conclusions
- In respect of the objectives
- Market
Recommendations
Digestive health market
The functional food market trends
Definition of prebiotics and probiotics
Overview of digestive health platform concept
- Functional food ingredient producers
- End users: food & beverage manufacturers
- Academics
Beta-glucan, resistant starch and XOS as health ingredients
- Summary
- Beta-glucan
- Background
- Market
- Opportunities identified
- 8 Companies & products
- Patents
- Research
- News
- 8 articles
- Xylooligosaccharides
- Resistant starch
- Opportunities identified
- 4 Companies & products
- Hydrocolloids
- Opportunities identified
- Dairy ingredients
- Summary
- Market
- FOS
- Opportunity identified
- General food trends
- Summary
- Beverages
- Dairy
- Food news
- 9 articles
- Observations on digestive health at IFT exhibition
- Food trends: the top 5 for ’05
- Further exhibition observations
- Oral sessions on health benefits and functionality of fructooligosaccharides
- Digestive health – EU research
- News
- 5 articles
Contact reports
- 6 Functional food ingredient producers
- 20 End users: food & beverage manufacturers
- 13 Academics
- 4 Others