Africa Food Additives Market Trends

The sweetener market has been estimated to have the highest demand and also has the fastest growth in African countries. Therefore, to meet the industrial and consumer needs, the production of sugar in the African region has been increased significantly. The sugar, especially the liquid sugar has a robust application due to the ease in the consistency in production processes such as for dissolving, filtering, and others, which is achieved by employing liquid sugar, which is otherwise difficult to achieve using the granular or powder form. However, the growing health concerns associated with artificial sweeteners such as aspartame and saccharin are driving consumers' interest in natural sweeteners. Steviol glycosides mainly drive the growth in the natural high-intensity sweeteners space followed by monk fruit extract of mogroside V. Similarly, stevia is also seeing a major demand in the natural sweeteners category.