Abstract
For food ingredient companies willing to enter the non-food market, there is
over a billion dollars of market potential awaiting them. In addition
to increasing the profitability of their traditional product lines, producers
of ingredients can potentially expand their markets by moving their products
or byproducts into the healthcare sector, where drug producers or
manufacturers of some biomedical devices could incorporate them into their
products.
Kalorama Information' s Healthcare Opportunities for Food Ingredient
Manufacturers details the sources of ancillary revenue that food
manufacturer' s can tap into, including the ingredients that are most sought
after by healthcare companies, drivers of these ingredients, the total market
potential, and the realistic market share new entrants could earn.
Among the ingredients with healthcare industry potential detailed in the
report are the following:
- Purified Glycomacropeptide
- Commodity Whey Powder
- Lactoferrin
- Egg Shells
- Peanut Skin-Based
- Pectin (For Tissue Engineering)
- Pectin (Food-Grade)
- Xanthan Gum
- Soy-Based Hydrogels
This report is a useful guide for companies lacking experience in healthcare
markets to assess the industry and find potential partners who maybe useful in
developing a strategy. For each ingredient, the report provides:
- Key applications
- Current market size
- Forecasted market size
- Realistic new entrant revenues
- Possible partners with expertise in the ingredient area.
As part of Kalorama Information' s trusted information-gathering process,
exhaustive research of secondary literature was conducted. But true insights
and revenue numbers originate from healthcare and food industry experts who
were interviewed for this report.
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