We talked about plant-based nutrition before, but through the understanding of plant-based nutrition, one topic cannot be avoided - plant-based. So what is plant based? Why is everyone talking about this topic now?
What Is Plant-Based?
What we call plant-based is actually based on plants, creating new food and beverage products, so as to replace animal protein with plant protein, and use it as a new type of food and beverage developed and produced as basic raw materials. Such as artificial meat, vegetable eggs, etc. However, it should be noted that it is not a complete vegetarianism, but only advocates that if we can obtain healthier and higher-value nutrients through plants, then plant-based is what we advocate and need to support.
Plant-Based Food Trend
The new crown epidemic in 2019 has caused all of us to go through a difficult and difficult time, and of course it has also aroused public concerns and concerns about the drawbacks in the traditional food supply chain. Consumers across the dietary spectrum are looking for delicious but sustainable protein alternatives that deliver better health, less environmental impact and a more harmonious natural ecosystem. The world has begun to touch on a topic, how to make us healthier through diet. Therefore, under the support of people's health, light foodism has become the most popular healthy lifestyle, and has driven the rapid development of the global plant-based industry.
As a result, we can see plant-based food appearing around us in a faster way, in large and small shopping malls and supermarkets. There is such a report that the global market size of plant-based artificial meat in 2019 is about 12.1 billion US dollars, and it is expected to grow at a compound growth rate of 15.0% annually, reaching 27.9 billion US dollars by 2025. The global plant-based milk market was valued at around $14 billion in 2019 and will grow at a CAGR of 8% to reach $30 billion by 2029.
That is to say, through research and discovery, as well as continuous exploration in the food field, we can see that the development of the plant-based food industry has become more rapid, using plant-based raw materials, artificial meat, Plant eggs, dairy products, and even chocolate, etc., are gradually being accepted and loved by consumers, and are relatively more beneficial to health.
As far as the Chinese plant-based food market is concerned, in the past two years, in 2020, the fastest sales growth of vegetable beverage market will reach 800%, the number of buyers will increase by 900%, and the growth contribution in the beverage market will reach 15.5%. At the same time, the market scale of plant protein beverage in China is still expanding. In 2021, the market scale of plant protein beverage industry in China will be about 123.4 billion yuan; It is predicted that it is expected to reach 140.6 billion yuan by 2026, maintaining a positive growth trend as a whole.
In the trend of healthy drinks, plant based drinks will enter a period of rapid development, setting off a revolutionary trend.