Asia faces huge social, economic and health challenges due to its rapidly ageing population, but it also provides vast opportunities for food, beverage and nutrition firms to cater to this burgeoning demographic through supplements, functional foods and...
As a rapidly emerging category in the biotic space, postbiotics offer great potential in the food and beverage industry, especially those in which probiotics cannot thrive. However, consumer confusion around its definition, the regulatory landscape in...
Food-borne infectious agents can affect the health of pets, while mycotoxins are also a hazard in the global pet food supply chain. Fats, protein meals, meat slurries and other ingredients added during pet food manufacturing can be prone to cross-contamination...
Is the trend toward humanization expected to continue, whereby pet owners seek products that mirror those they eat themselves or is inflationary pressure putting a stop to such developments?
Minimal impact ingredient sourcing along with alternative protein inclusion are hot topics in the pet food sustainability space. Ingredients represent the highest portion of pet food manufacturers’ carbon emissions, far outpacing any other contributor...
Scientists are digging deeper in their quest to understand the influence of diet and nutrition on pet gut health as the evidence grows that developing a stable and beneficial microbiome early on has long-term benefits.
We will kick off with a session on Scientific Breakthroughs: Cutting Edge Microbiome Research Amid the Pandemic with immunity, vaccines and COVID-19 at the forefront.
This session will feature a raft of market experts from China, South Korea, South East Asia and the Middle East, all of whom will provide the very latest regulatory updates, market opportunities, and state-of-the industry assessments from their respective...
The event will conclude with a deep dive into Idea to Commercialisation: Product Development, Innovation and Format Innovation, featuring the latest NPD opportunities from the biggest MNCs, to the region’s pioneering start-ups.
In recognition of the huge public health challenges, and immense business opportunities, posed by Asia’s rapidly ageing population, this year we will stage two editions on Healthy Ageing in order to give the topic the level of attention it requires. The...
Many Asian nations are still struggling to fight battles against obesity, diabetes and heart disease, so we’ll be shining the spotlight on the role the food, beverage and nutrition sector has to play in helping alleviate the various metabolic...
The Asia-Pacific infant formula market is due to double by 2026, to reach $26.8 billion, with brands continually striving to find a competitive edge with scientifically backed and high-value ingredients.
Interest in plant-based alternatives across Asia shows no signs of slowing, as evidenced by the growing number of major brands, suppliers and trend-setting foodservice outlets continuing to ramp-up investment.
Asian consumers are increasingly opting to eat several smaller meals across the day, instead of the traditional breakfast, lunch and dinner. This has led to a boom in the region’s snacking market, but many consumers are not satisfied with simple indulgence...
The immunity benefits of a range of products, including probiotics and prebiotics, are becoming more widely understood by consumers as the wealth of scientific evidence grows.
In this edition, we’ll analyse where the future research and...
Health and beauty have long worked hand-in-hand, but as COVID-19 continues to create seismic shifts in consumer needs and expectations, the demand for personal care items – topical and ingestible – that de-stress, soothe and protect as part of wider holistic...
Asia-Pacific’s vast array of botanicals and herbals provide a hotbed for innovation, with the traditional benefits of both Ayurveda and TCM being widely acknowledged by consumers.
In this event, we’ll be examining which ingredients are...
Asia continues to battle the double-burden of malnutrition and obesity, leading to projections that the reformulation market will rocket from $65bn today to $110bn by 2025 and the fortification sector will surge from $70bn to $125bn by 2030.
Asia-Pacific’s active and sports nutrition was valued at $1.4bn in 2019, and is forecast to hit $2.3bn by 2023 as consumers increasingly prioritise health, wellness and fitness.
The Asia-Pacific infant formula market size was valued at $11.4 billion in 2017, and is projected to reach $26.8 billion by 2026, with China, India and emerging South East Asian markets particular hotpots.
Asia is tipped to be the largest region for plant-based food consumption in the $21bn global finished product market by 2025 on the back of consumers’ ethical, health and environmental concerns, plus extensive product innovation.
The APAC probiotics market is predicted to grow from $17.5bn in 2018 to more than $25bn by 2025, while the prebiotic market is set to enjoy almost double-digit CAGR over the period, as benefits far beyond digestive health are more widely understood.
By 2050 there will be 1.3 billion people over the age of 60 in APAC, up from around 650 million today, with vast gains predicted for products that help boost immunity, bone, joint, muscle, cognitive, heart, skin, eye and digestive health.
As the number of people seeking to adopt an active lifestyle increases, so does the importance of immunity within the active nutrition category. In this online event, we’ll be debating the latest innovations, insights and evidence of how optimal nutrition...
Examining the ingredients are resonating with consumers, the latest research findings and how botanical products could potentially complement conventional treatments.
Analysing where the future research priorities should lie and how this can be a springboard for fresh commercial success across the probiotics and prebiotics sector.
Discussing the key components of quality clinical research and shining the spotlight on companies and academics that are investing in gold-standard immunity research.
The microbiome is now understood to have one of the most important roles in our mental and physical health and the industry is capitalising on its popularity with new gut health focused nutrition and services appearing on the market every day.
The omega-3 industry has benefited from decades of scientific research which has helped build strong consumer trust but with shoppers generally becoming increasingly sceptical about health claims and concerned about environmental sustainability, businesses...
Aging presents new challenges for us all. Declining immune function, increased susceptibility to infections, and loss of muscle mass are common problems that have the potential to be addressed through diet and supplementation. In this presentation, Mark...
Now, with the global population getting older and an increasing number of over 50s in every country, the concept of healthy ageing has never been so important.
In this panel discussion, we’ll explore how to develop products and target them...
In 2018, people aged 65 years or over worldwide, outnumbered children under age five for the first time in history. By 2050, an estimated of 1.5 billion people will be aged 65 or older. The healthy ageing industry is expected to become highly competitive...
The rapid growth of mobile health technologies, apps and wearable devices in recent year provides the clearest evidence of changing times and accelerated innovation in the mHealth space. This session will explore how these new technologies are impacting...
In highly competitive industries, differentiation is key. The alimentary and nutraceutical sector has faced multiple challenges within the last few years, particularly, in terms of the regulation around the marketing of functional foods and their associated...
Clinical trials are an insurance policy for claims purposes. Designing good randomized clinical trials that can prove efficacy for dietary supplements is challenging. For clinicians to be convinced of the value of Dietary Supplements, they need the proof...
The market for active and sports nutrition products is growing at a rapid rate and leading to a more diverse consumer base for the category.
Today there is no typical sports nutrition consumer. Older consumers and groups such as weekend-warriors...
While other vitamins and nutrients have hit the headlines for their positive effect on health in recent years, it seems that the importance of vitamin K2 as a modulator or controller of many other processes has been too often overlooked.
The sports nutrition market is growing rapidly as consumers look to ‘get healthy on the go’, and maximise the benefits of their active lifestyles. Indeed, according to Mintel data, one in four people in the UK have consumed a sports nutrition product,...
Today sports nutrition is going mainstream – with personalised nutrition for an active lifestyle. The trend is now driving tailored products – and green, vegan, natural and non-GMO claims, linked to the ever-popular protein. Plant protein is full of promise...
The sports nutrition category remains one of the fastest growing areas of the whole nutrition industry. But the market is also rife negative publicity because of certain products on the market which do not comply with food labelling and/ or safety rules,...
