Asia-Pacific Functional Flour Market – Industry Trends and Forecast to 2030

Asia-Pacific Functional Flour Market Analysis and Size

Functional flour is processed or specialty flour offering five times higher water-binding capacity than conventional flour. This flour is derived through hydro-thermally treatment, including roller drying, thin layer drying, and extrusion. An improved nutritional benefit of functional flour with low fat that supports a healthy diet is increasing its consumption and demand of functional flour in the Asia-Pacific functional flour market. It is derived from the natural process to offer additive-free content and high-fiber food products. It has wide application in several food industries, for instance, loaf bread, baguettes, rustic crusty bread, pizza, sourdough, and others, owing to low fat and improved natural content.

Data Bridge Market Research analyses that the Asia-Pacific functional flour market, which was USD 8,636.27  million in 2022, would rocket up to USD 15,845.42 million by 2030 and is expected to undergo a CAGR of 7.9% during the forecast period. "Non-GMO" dominates the category segment of the functional flour market owing to the growing demand for industrial practices. In addition to the insights on market scenarios such as market value, growth rate, segmentation, geographical coverage, and major players, the market reports curated by the Data Bridge Market Research also include in-depth expert analysis, geographically represented company-wise production and capacity, network layouts of distributors and partners, detailed and updated price trend analysis and deficit analysis of supply chain and demand.

Asia-Pacific Functional Flour Market Scope and Segmentation

Market Definition

Functional flour is processed or specialty flour offering five times higher water-binding capacity than conventional flour. This flour is derived through hydro-thermally treatment, including roller drying, thin layer drying, and extrusion. An improved nutritional benefit of functional flour with low fat that supports a healthy diet is increasing its consumption and demand of functional flour in the Asia-Pacific functional flour market. It is derived from the natural process to offer additive-free content and high-fiber food products. It has wide application in several food industries, for instance, loaf bread, baguettes, rustic crusty bread, pizza, sourdough, and others, owing to low fat and improved natural content.

Asia-Pacific Functional Flour Market Dynamics

Drivers

• Increasing demand for healthy food products

Consumers are adopting a healthy lifestyle and consuming healthy foods, organic food, healthy drinks, and others. Available flour offers added protein and nutritional values with reduced fat content and are significantly used for coeliac disease consumers. The consumption of organic food is increasing owing to the major demand for plant-based or natural ingredients-based food products projected to support the growth of the functional flour market. Owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, people are demanding more healthy products, such as functional flours, to maintain their health. The benefits of functional flour for human health such as low fat, gluten free, and improved nutritional value, augment the market growth.

• Rising demand for the clean label products

Clean labeled products such as functional flours are customers' expectations. Customer opinions are of prime importance for companies consumers today are more informative about the products they consume. Incorporating the consumers' expectations in products in terms of quality and clean-label ingredients will aid food companies to gain a competitive edge in the market in coming years as consumers increasingly demand clean-label products. The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has made people more concerned about their health and demanding organic and clean labeled functional flour products, projected to drive the growth of the Asia-Pacific functional flour market.

Opportunities

• Rising demand for the gluten-free flour

Consumers are getting more concerned about the ingredients of food products, creating a huge opportunity for the market to introduce gluten-free flour products. Gluten-free flour has increasing demand in Asia-Pacific due to the benefits offered by the flour, such as added protein, suitable for coeliac disease suffering consumers and others gluten-free flour has become a part of the healthy lifestyle, creating a huge opportunity for the market.

• Strong research activities

The increasing research activities in the market to offer advanced functional flour having additional benefits is creating an opportunity for the market to grow stronger. New product developments are carried out through scientific studies to meet the emerging need for healthy food products. These strong activities are developing new offerings for food manufacturers with better taste and national benefits. Such initiatives to develop new functional flour products for food manufacturers create opportunities for the market to grow stronger. Product development helps increase sales by offering multiple food product applications; hence it is helping the functional flour market increase its share.

Restraint/Challenge

• Stringent regulations imposed by the governments

The governments of various countries in Asia-  Pacific have introduced some stringent regulations for food products to ensure health safety among consumers. Some manufacturers utilize genetically modified raw materials to produce functional flour and do not maintain transparency about such raw materials on product labeling. According to a study conducted by Greenpeace, in UAE, about 40% of food is genetically modified without proper labeling. Therefore, to avoid such issues, the government has imposed stringent regulations. Stringent regulation imposed by the government is a major restraint for the Asia-Pacific functional flour market.

Recent Development

• In February 2020, ARDENT MILLS acquired Andean Naturals, Inc.'s quinoa sourcing, packaging, and cleaning operation based in the U.S. This operating facility will be the company's first gluten-free sourcing and cleaning facility with the ability to expand to other grains. This acquisition has enabled the company to meet growing consumer demand for high-quality, nutritious grains and other sources of plant-based ingredients        
• In January 2020, AGRANA Beteiligungs-AG acquired Marroquin Organic International distributor for the distribution of the company's starch products in the U.S. Marroquin Organic International is a leader with 29 years of experience in the non-GMO and organic sector in the U.S. and has a high reputation in the market.

Asia-Pacific Functional Flour Market Scope

功能性面粉市场根据类别、等级、来源、应用和技术类型进行细分。这些细分市场之间的增长将帮助您分析行业中增长缓慢的细分市场，并为用户提供有价值的市场概览和市场洞察，帮助他们做出战略决策，确定核心市场应用。

类别

• 转基因
• 非转基因

年级

• 食品级
• 饲料级

来源

• 谷物
• 小麦
• 玉米
• 米
• 仅仅
• 黑麦
• 高粱
• 粟
• 其他的
• 豆类
• 扁豆
• 鹰嘴豆
• 豌豆
• 黄豌豆
• 青豆
• 坚果
• 豆子
• 其他的
• 土豆
• 木薯
• 奇亚
• 其他的

应用

• 烘焙和糖果产品
• 面包
• 饼干、薄脆饼干
• 蛋糕、松饼和甜甜圈
• 饼皮和披萨面团
• 巧克力
• 糖果
• 口香糖
• 其他的
• 烘焙和糖果产品（按类型）
• 谷物
• 豆类
• 土豆
• 奇亚
• 木薯
• 其他的
• 方便食品
• 中东即食食品
• 汤、调味品和酱汁
• 方便面
• 人造黄油酱
• 其他的
• 方便食品（按类型）
• 谷物
• 豆类
• 土豆
• 奇亚
• 木薯
• 其他的
• 运动营养，按类型划分
• 谷物
• 豆类
• 土豆
• 奇亚
• 木薯
• 其他的
• 婴儿配方奶粉（按类型）
• 谷物
• 豆类
• 土豆
• 奇亚
• 木薯
• 其他的
• 肉类、家禽和海鲜（按种类）
• 谷物
• 豆类
• 土豆
• 奇亚
• 木薯
• 其他的
• 动物饲料（按类型）
• 谷物
• 豆类
• 土豆
• 奇亚
• 木薯
• 其他的
• 饮料（按类型）
• 谷物
• 豆类
• 土豆
• 奇亚
• 木薯
• 其他的
• 营养棒，按类型
• 谷物
• 豆类
• 土豆
• 奇亚
• 木薯
• 其他的
• 营养补充剂（按类型）
• 谷物
• 豆类
• 土豆
• 奇亚
• 木薯
• 其他的
• 乳制品（按类型）
• 谷物
• 豆类
• 土豆
• 奇亚
• 木薯
• 其他的

技术类型

• 热处理面粉
• 热液处理
• 热处理
• 挤压加工
• 滚筒干燥
• 其他的

功能性面粉市场区域分析/洞察

对功能性面粉市场进行了分析，并按类别、等级、来源、应用和技术类型提供了市场规模见解和趋势，如上所述。

功能性面粉市场报告涉及的国家包括中国、日本、印度、韩国、新加坡、马来西亚、澳大利亚、泰国、印度尼西亚、菲律宾和亚太地区其他地区。

印度在功能性面粉市场占据主导地位，因为该国拥有强大的生产设施基础、主要市场参与者的强大影响力、消费者对无麸质面粉产品的需求不断增加，以及商业策略的数量不断增加。

由于对面粉制品的需求增加、无麸质产品需求上升、该地区研究活动不断增多、有大量未开发市场以及人口庞大，预计印度将在 2023 年至 2030 年的预测期内出现显著增长。

报告的国家部分还提供了影响单个市场因素和国内市场监管变化，这些因素和变化影响了市场的当前和未来趋势。下游和上游价值链分析、技术趋势和波特五力分析、案例研究等数据点是用于预测单个国家市场情景的一些指标。此外，在对国家数据进行预测分析时，还考虑了品牌的存在和可用性以及由于来自本地和国内品牌的激烈或稀缺竞争而面临的挑战、国内关税和贸易路线的影响。

竞争格局和功能性面粉市场份额分析

The functional flour market competitive landscape provides details by competitor. Details included are company overview, company financials, revenue generated, market potential, investment in research and development, new market initiatives, global presence, production sites and facilities, production capacities, company strengths and weaknesses, product launch, product width and breadth, application dominance. The above data points provided are only related to the companies' focus related to the market.

Some of the major players operating in the functional flour market are:

• General Mills Inc. (U.S.)
• Ingredion Incorporated (U.S.)
• ADM (U.S.)
• AGRANA Beteiligungs-AG (Austria)
• ARDENT MILLS (U.S.)
• Bunge Limited (U.S.)
• SunOpta (Canada)
• ABF Ingredients (U.K.)
• Limagrain - Ingrédients (France)
• Bakels Sweden (Sweden)
• Mühlenchemie GmbH & Co. KG (Germany)

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