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Immunity-Boosting Beverages: New Business Opportunity in Today's Time
Traditionally, sugar has been ubiquitous in soft drinks as a key ingredient
used to bring indulgence to consumers. Nevertheless, challenges stemming from
the regulatory front as well as changing consumer attitudes about health are
disrupting long-successful sugary drinks. Aside from developing healthier
alternatives as well as embracing classic flavours, beverage manufacturer) are
offering immunity-boosting beverages. New product variants to support health,
including micronutrients like vitamins and probiotics, serve as the new
response.
1. Political and social pressure on sugary drinks
Governments in today’s time have taken tougher measures against sugar amid
increasing consumption across the region. World is set to witness the fastest
growth rate in per capita volume consumption of food and drinks sweeteners
amongst all regions in the world between 2019-2024. With a compound annual
growth rate (CAGR) of 0.6% during the same period, this figure is predicted to
rise from 6.52kg in 2019 to 6.73kg in 2024. Regulators in the region have hence
implemented numerous measures to curb surging sugar consumption.
With sugar intake rising, the consumers who are obese has also been increasing.
Therefore, consumers are turning to healthier food and beverage product
offerings for their own wellbeing. Moreover, COVID-19 has led consumers to
reinforce their attitudes toward everyday health, nutrition, and hygiene. They
are increasingly concerned with health and wellness priorities in their daily
life, including a focus on immunity to reduce the risk of illness.
2. Immune support beverages gain traction
With a pandemic-induced focus on immunity, beverage companies are turning to
immune support beverages as the new direction to go beyond their usual
approach. According to Euromonitor’s Voice of the Industry: Soft Drinks Survey
2020, more than 54% of professionals recognize the importance of immune support
and health and wellness beverages in impacting sales during the pandemic, which
is the second most influential factor only behind e-commerce and delivery.
Euromonitor also expects fortified and functional soft drinks* to be stably
expanding with a retail value CAGR of 2% during 2020-2025.
3. Juice and vitamins driving immunity-boosting range
Categories that can boost immunity for consumers have hence been on the rise.
Juice remains one of the main core categories positioned to serve consumers for
immunity boost, due to its health perception as vitamin containment. Retail
sales of not-from-concentrate (NFC) 100% juice is projected to hit US$1.8
billion in 2020, growing at an 8% CAGR between 2020 and 2025 to reach US$2.9
billion in 2025.
Beverage makers have thus been actively developing new products centered around
juice as well as health-focused juice smoothies in order to get a slice of this
growing category and draw consumers’ attention, claiming benefits from added
vitamins and natural ingredients.
4. Emerging categories and ingredients for immune support beverages
Immunity-boosting functionality has now started moving beyond juice. Functional
water is one of the prime examples. New and unique ingredients beyond vitamin C
or even probiotics have likewise begun to strengthen their association with
immune support beverages. In September 2020, PepsiCo announced the launch of
Driftwell in the U.S., an unsweetened still canned water containing blackberry,
lavender, magnesium, and 200g of the amino acid L-theanine. The launch aims to
enhance immunity through sleep aid.
5. Looking ahead
The rise of immune-support beverages provides a new path for beverage
manufacturers to steer towards a more comprehensive product portfolio. Such a
trend will continue based on what we have observed during the pandemic. Consequently,
it is crucial for beverage companies to understand consumer needs about health
and indulgence in order for such beverages to thrive in the long-term
post-pandemic.
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