Report Buyer, the online destination for business intelligence for major industry sectors, has now added a new report showing that growing price competition is forcing food ingredient companies to sell products and byproducts to the healthcare industry, to sustain profitable growth. By selling these products to pharmaceutical, medical foods, or biomedical device companies, food ingredient companies have a potential of generating $1 billion.

Healthcare Opportunities for Food Ingredient Manufacturers reports that thousands of bioactive phytochemicals have established pharmaceutical or medicinal applications. The report shows that food-grade pectin, used as a thickening agent and stabilizer in food, tops the industry’s list of ingredients most likely to succeed in healthcare. Useful for such applications as drug delivery, gene repair, and tissue repair, pectin offers food ingredient manufacturers as much as $890 million in sales to the healthcare industry.

Glycomacropeptide, a whey component that is released during the manufacturer of cheese, has been shown to stimulate the body’s synthesis and release of cholesystokinen. This compound plays a role in the regulation of digestion and appetite suppression, providing yet another $65.6 million market in the healthcare industry.

Authors of the report note that there are a variety of market opportunities in the healthcare sector, either in drugs, medical foods, or medical devices. According to them, the cost-effective discovery and recovery of novel ingredients with improved properties from food processing streams depends on next generation analysis, isolation, and separation technologies. Food ingredient manufacturers will have to turn to science and technological advances to add value to their primary, byproduct, and waste streams.

Healthcare Opportunities for Food Ingredient Manufacturers analyses the current and potential healthcare-related markets for some traditional food ingredients and materials, including glycomacropeptide, lactoferrin, dairy bioactives, serum protein concentrate, shell eggs, peanut skins, pectin, xanthan gum, and hydrogels. This report reviews the nature and direction of research, analyses market opportunities for these materials in the pharmaceutical, medical foods, and biomedical device sectors, and provides an outlook on future markets.

Healthcare Opportunities for Food Ingredient Manufacturers is available from Report Buyer.

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