Additives US spend rises

摘要

According to Business Communications CO, the total U.S. market for food additives reached nearly 5B dollar in 2001 and is expected to rise at an AAGR (average annual growth rate) of 3.1 percent to 5.8Bn dollar in 2006. Food additives are a complicated and quite technical business, one which is getting more complicated each year as food and food additive suppliers work to create food products that meet modern American society demands for convenience, safety, taste, etc., while also being more 'natural' and less suspect of being 'chemicals'. As with colours, natural flavours have been growing faster lately than synthetic ones. Flavour enhancers, primarily MSG, but increasingly newer and less controversial products like ribonucleotides, have also growing nicely. Flavourings and flavour enhancers is the largest of all classes of additives, almost 1.25Bn dollar in 2001, growing to 1.46Bn dollar in 2006. Formulation aids is a 1.1Bn dollar market of materials that influence the texture, homogeneity, and stability of foods. These make a processed food easier to work with, of better consistency, or more attractive. They are called by a number of names, including binders, fillers, stabilisers, surfactants, thickeners, and others. This market should growat an AAGR of 2.7 percent to almost 1.3Bn dollar in 2006.