Leatherhead: Mixed outlook for additives market

GLOBAL sales of food and drink additives reached $27.4bn in 2010, according to Leatherhead Food Research's new report "The Global Food Additives Market  ". Although the market as a whole grew by more than 4% per year, growth rates varied widely between sectors, and as the economic recovery struggles to take off, a period of relatively modest growth is forecast for the world food additives market over the next few years.

Growing demand for low fat, salt and sugar products as well as functional health benefit products, is driving demand for a host of additives including  emulsifiers, hydrocolloids, sweeteners, vitamins and minerals, soya ingredients, omega-3 fatty acids, probiotics, prebiotics and plant stanol esters. Consumer demand for "natural" food and drink products is also on the rise, putting growing pressure on additive suppliers to develop ingredients from natural sources -  particularly significant for the flavours and colours categories, where natural products are rapidly gaining share over synthetics.

The full report The Global Food Additives Market 5th Edition is available now  from Leatherhead Food Research priced at GBP825 for Members and GBP985 for Non-members. Visit www.leatherheadfood. com/global-food-additives for more details.