Dependable information from the Chemical Enquiries Help Desk in 48 hours.  Each month library staff look at one of the many enquiries received and highlight selected resources, including the Virtual Library, that provide relevant answers.  

The enquiry this month 

• What sort of applications do functional foods/nutraceuticals have and what is the state of the market?         

The Knovel collection has a book entitled Functional Foods with sections:

General Issues including chapters EU Legislation and Functional Foods: A Case Study and US Legislation and Functional Health Claims 

Functional Foods and Health with chapters including Colonic Functional Foods, Coronary Heart Disease and Antitumour properties 

Developing Functional Food Products, chapters include Maximising the Functional Benefits of Plant Foods and Functional Confectionery

Chemical Business NewsBase through the Engineering Village platform is one of the best resources for market information:

Nutraceuticals market growing at 40% on greater health awareness': Guardian Lifecare opens 2 stores in Mumbai. Source: Business Line, v 15, n 141, 21 May 2008, p 2

Nutraceutical reports stronger 2Q 2007-2008 results. [3 tables in original article] Source: Nutraceutical International 2Q and 1H 2007-2008 financials

Huge growth potential of nutraceuticals highlighted at summit. Source: Chemical Weekly, v 53, n 31, 18 Mar 2008, p 134

Searching the word nutraceutical in the title field, in addition to the above results, also generates various category lists.  For example companies are listed according to the number of results found.  This may indicate  the key players.

You can keep up to date with the latest international developments both in ingredient and end product innovation, scientific research, market trends and regulatory structures for the health and nutrition industry with the full text e-journal Functional Ingredients, formerly known as Functional Foods & Nutraceuticals (2004 - 2007) through EBSCO

As part of the services of the Chemical Enquiries Help Desk we can supplement the information above with references retrieved from Chemical Abstracts, Scopus, Web of Science.

Members can carry out their own high quality research from the Virtual Library simply by logging in to a resource with their membership number and password.