The Global Market for Carotenoids

The Global Market for Carotenoids
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  • Publication date : March 2008

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The Global Market for Carotenoids

This report is an update of the BCC report The Global Market for Carotenoids, published in 2005, a study of the market situation of 2004. The market set-up for carotenoids over the past 3 years developed further and in some areas massive changes occurred. The main categories are still the same; no new types of carotenoids entered the market, but in almost all product categories developments in technology, applications, and especially market structures have taken place.

Beta-carotene is still the most prominent carotenoid used in foods and supplements, but due to a changing consumer perception, primarily in Europe, the product is suffering from natural replacements, specifically carrot juice, and market growth in the past few years was much lower than expected. In parallel, the number of producers of synthetic and algae derived beta-carotene rose sharply, which added to the imbalance of supply and demand, driving prices down.

Lycopene, an antioxidant recommended to prevent prostate cancer and traditionally supplied as an extract from tomato, saw unprecedented price decreases, mainly because of a number of new producers, an only moderately growing market in North America, and the inability to sell synthetic lycopene in Europe, due to lack of EU permission. However, fermentation derived material is now available and registered in North America and in Europe.

The lutein market was booming until 2004, but started, like lycopene, to suffer from a number of new market entries. Lutein for feed and for supplements is offered at prices lower than ever before.

Canthaxanthin is still the color of choice for introducing a red tone in egg yolks and to provide a cost competitive red background color in fish and shrimp. The number of canthaxanthin producers is extremely high as never, but application segments have only expanded moderately. Massive price erosions were the consequence and some manufacturers started to promote its use in the supplement sector to escape the decreasing profitability of the product in feed.

Astaxanthin, the color of choice for pigmenting fish and shrimp, expanded its market, but also suffered (as most other carotenoids) from an increasing number of suppliers and subsequent price erosion. Most astaxanthin is still produced by chemical synthesis. The fermentation product from Tate & Lyle is no longer on the market but algae products are making an increasing inroad into the astaxanthin market, not so much for fish coloring but for enriching supplements with an antioxidant, the health effects of which are claimed to be numerous.

Apo-carotenal and apo-ester are still on the market and despite the previous assumption that they will phase out sooner or later, they enjoyed some market growth in recent years, and even a new market entry took place.

Annatto, a carotenoid extract from a tree, has been on the market for a long while. Revisiting and analyzing in detail the annatto market revealed that the previous market data provided underestimated its importance and therefore the product section is not only an update from previous ones but sheds a completely new light on annatto. 
 


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