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Global Edible Nuts Market Research Report- Forecast to 2022
2 Market Overview
A shift in consumer’s food consumption trend has prompted the high growth of health foods and snacks on a global
platform. Increasing incidences of cardiovascular diseases and obesity in the developed countries have made the
consumers’ getting inclined towards adopting healthy food pattern. Owing to this, the market for healthy snacks is
experiencing a surge. Edible nuts are used in various healthy snacks including energy and yoga bars to increase its
overall nutritional value. Increasing demand and consumption of healthy snacks is encouraging consumers to enter
into edible nuts market and generate.
The multipurpose application in various industries has added to the overall value of edible nuts. The diverse
application of edible nuts in various products such as ice-cream, confectionery, sports nutrition, personal-care
products have increased the demand and has a positive impact on the high import-export volume of edible nuts.
Almond is one of the major agricultural commodities and has witnessed high import and export during the last few
years. Rising health concerns amongst the consumers has led to increased consumption of edible nuts based on
their nutritional profile. Almonds, walnuts, cashew nuts and others are rich source of vitamins, minerals and fibers
and hence are used across various food and confectionery industries to increase the organoleptic property of the
end-product.
Growing population, rise in disposable incomes and changing lifestyle has encouraged the unique innovations in the
food sector. Consumers have recently got inclined more towards consumption of healthy food products with
innovative flavors. The product development and addition of new flavors while the processing of edible nuts has
attracted consumers towards the product and has influenced its growth in sale. For instance, the sale of cashew nuts
have increased due to innovations leading to new flavors such as pepper and salt cashew, honey sugar cashew,
Choco cashews and others.
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