(Food-Beverage-News.Com, July 18, 2019 ) The report "Vitamin D Market by Analog (Vitamin D2, Vitamin D3), Form (Dry, Liquid), Application (Functional Food & Beverage, Pharma, Feed, and Personal Care), End User (Children, Adult, and Pregnant Women), Iu Strength and Region - Global Forecast to 2025"
The key driving factors of the vitamin D market include the increasing consumer concerns regarding maintaining a balanced diet and the growing consumer awareness about several diseases caused by vitamin D deficiency. Food fortification is one of the major trends that is fuelling the vitamin D market in the functional food & beverage industry.
Vitamin D is gaining traction in the healthcare and pharmaceutical industry due to its wide demand in nutritional supplements, owing to its various bone health benefits. Consumers are increasingly shifting their preference toward on-the-go, convenient, nutritionally enriched, and functional food & beverage products, due to their increasingly busy lifestyles, the rise in healthy snacking trend, and greater awareness about vitamin-fortified food & beverage products, thereby driving the market for vitamin D.
Browse 142 market data Tables and 40 Figures spread through 171 Pages and in-depth TOC on "Vitamin D Market - Global Forecast to 2025"
The vitamin D market is witnessing strong growth due to an increase in the prevalence of vitamin D deficiencies:
The prevalence of vitamin D deficiencies in several countries is one of the major factors fueling the growth of vitamin D market. According to the estimates of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), vitamin D deficiency is prevalent in 8.0% of Americans. Deficiency of vitamin D causes rickets in children and osteoporosis in adults. It has also been associated with common cancers, hypertension, and infectious diseases. Children need vitamin D for the development of skeletal structure and tooth enamel. The deficiency of vitamin D in infants can have adverse consequences such as growth failure, ethargy, irritability, rickets, and a predisposition to respiratory infections during infancy.
By analog, the vitamin D3segment is estimated to account for the largest share in the vitamin D market in 2019:
Among the analogs in the vitamin D market, vitamin D3 was the dominant analog. Vitamin D3 is an essential micronutrient required for the maintenance of the bones and the aversion of osteoporosis and rickets. Vitamin D3 has several functions and has its application in the food, feed, healthcare, and personal care industries. The use of vitamin D3 in the food & beverage industry is closely regulated to prevent the possibility of an overdose since excessive consumption is associated with toxicity.
The vitamin D market in the Asia Pacific is projected to witness the fastest growth between 2019 and 2025:
The market in this region is dominated by China. Asia Pacific is witnessing the highest growth due to the rapid economic expansion. The region is attracting investors for setting up production facilities due to the ease of availability of raw materials, skilled labor, land, and equipment at a lower cost. According to the 2019 Alltech Global Feed Survey, Asia Pacific is home to several of the top 10 feed-producing countries, including China, India, and Japan; and accounted for more than 36.0% of the world’s feed tonnage. China dominated as the top feed-producing country in the world, with 187.9 million metric tons (207.1 million tons). This region has also witnessed significant growth in manufacturing activities due to the support of the local governments. Increasing investments in R&D is also one of the factors driving the market in Asia Pacific.
The key players in the vitamin D market include Zhejiang Garden Biochemical High-Tech Co.,Ltd (China), Koninklijke DSM N.V. (Netherlands), Zhejiang Xinhecheng Co., Ltd. (China), Taizhou Haisheng Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (China), Xiamen Jindawei Vitamin Co., Ltd. (China), Fermenta Biotech Ltd. (India), Zhejiang Medicine Co., Ltd.(China), BASF (Germany), and Dishman Group (India). The key market players, along with the other players, adopted various business strategies such as new product launches, expansions, and joint ventures & agreements, in the last few years, to meet the growing demand for vitamin D.
About MarketsandMarkets™
MarketsandMarkets™ provides quantified B2B research on 30,000 high growth niche opportunities/threats which will impact 70% to 80% of worldwide companies’ revenues. Currently servicing 7500 customers worldwide including 80% of global Fortune 1000 companies as clients. Almost 75,000 top officers across eight industries worldwide approach MarketsandMarkets™ for their painpoints around revenues decisions.
Our 850 fulltime analyst and SMEs at MarketsandMarkets™ are tracking global high growth markets following the "Growth Engagement Model – GEM". The GEM aims at proactive collaboration with the clients to identify new opportunities, identify most important customers, write "Attack, avoid and defend" strategies, identify sources of incremental revenues for both the company and its competitors. MarketsandMarkets™ now coming up with 1,500 MicroQuadrants (Positioning top players across leaders, emerging companies, innovators, strategic players) annually in high growth emerging segments. MarketsandMarkets™ is determined to benefit more than 10,000 companies this year for their revenue planning and help them take their innovations/disruptions early to the market by providing them research ahead of the curve.
MarketsandMarkets’s flagship competitive intelligence and market research platform, "Knowledgestore" connects over 200,000 markets and entire value chains for deeper understanding of the unmet insights along with market sizing and forecasts of niche markets.
