The scope of this report is broad and covers markets for food additives that are used globally.
The report provides a comprehensive review of market drivers, restraints, opportunities and available patents.Depending on who is doing the categorization, there can be a large number of food additive categories, and no report can attempt to cover them all, especially low-volume exotic additives with small markets.
irect food additives, which means those intentionally added to food, as opposed to chemicals that, for example, can migrate into food from packaging materials.
Therefore, the report excludes caloric sweeteners such as sugar and high-fructose syrups, mineral and vitamin supplements, caloric flavorings like butter and chocolate , and other food ingredients.
Because food additives are, for the most part, high value-added, specialty chemicals, often produced to an end user’s specifications, volumes in pounds are less meaningful than market values in dollars.