Summary
The U.S Digestive Health Ingredients market has been segmented into prebiotics, probiotics and enzymes. The market is in the growth stage and is currently valued to be $265.9 million. It is expected to grow to $495.3 million in 2015 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 13.2%.
U.S. Digestive Health Ingredients Market (2010 – 2015)
The market dynamics and trends are very different among the three segments. Prebiotics and probiotics are growing at double-digit growth rate as compared to the digestive enzymes, which are experiencing a relatively lower growth rate. Prebiotics is the largest revenue-generating ingredient among the three major segments.
The probiotics market in the United States is at an emerging stage. With reference to the awareness level among the United States consumers against European consumers, the U.S. consumers are still in the growing stage. The market shows a huge opportunity for the digestive health ingredients manufacturers and suppliers who could educate and create awareness among consumers. In the U.S. market, the consumption of probiotics through dietary supplement products is high. However, in Europe, the scenario is reversed, as probiotics are often consumed in a more diluted form through dairy and other food and beverage products.
The main purpose of this report is to analyze the U.S. market for the following three important digestive health ingredients. Digestive prebiotics (Fructans, Mannan-oligosaccharides (MOS), Galactooligosaccharide (GOS) and so on), digestive probiotics (cultures), Digestive enzymes (Proteases, Lipases Carbohydrases, Lactases and so on).
The report also analyses the trends for products and applications used in digestive health ingredient market and provides forecasts for the digestive health ingredient market and its sub-segments. It also analyses the factors driving as well as inhibiting the growth of digestive health ingredients market and its various sub-segments.
Scope of the report
Market Overview
This section discusses the market definition of digestive health ingredient market. This section also discusses the state of the current market, functional benefits of the products and application analysis. Consumer trends, challenges faced, and regulations and critical success factors are also discussed in detail in this section.
Market segmentation
This study is segmented into three broad categories of ingredients, as discussed below.
- Digestive Prebiotics
- Digestive Probiotics
- Digestive Enzymes
Each section will include market data, market drivers, market inhibitors, forecasts, competitive landscape, application analysis and trends & opportunities in detail.
Company Profiles
This section provides the company profiles of major companies participating in the United States digestive health ingredient market. Company profiles include a brief overview of the company, primary business, strategies followed and developments.