Kalorama Information

Medical Industry Offers Food Ingredient Companies More Than One Billion Reasons to Think Healthy

Published in Blood Weekly, December 20th, 2007

Growing price competition from low-cost manufacturers has been forcing ingredient companies to search for new ways to sustain profitable growth, which Kalorama Information predicts will likely come from the sale of products or byproducts to pharmaceutical, medical foods, or biomedical device companies -- a potential $1 billion market -- in a new report, Healthcare Opportunities for Food Ingredient Manufacturers.

Thousands of bioactive phytochemicals have potential or established pharmaceutical or medicinal applications. 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....

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