Simple ingredient with multiple benefits driving the ingredient market
Food ingredients refer to a broad category of ingredients that are added to food to improve the appearance, quality or nutritional value of food and beverages. Food ingredients help facilitate processing, maintain product consistency, extend shelf life, ensure microbiological safety, improve or maintain nutritional value, or enhance the flavour, colour and texture of the finished product.
Experimenting with ingredients in snack foods
The GIA(Global Industry Analyst) has announced the release of a comprehensive global report on snack foods market. The global snack foods market is forecast to reach $334 billion and 48,519,000 tonnes in volume terms, by the year 2015, driven primarily by changing consumer demographics, perceptions, priorities and affluence levels.