COVID-19 Impact on Food Coating Ingredients in Food and Beverage Industry
INTRODUCTION
The COVID-19 has impacted almost every industry by surging in their consumption. The food coating ingredients market has several negative impacts of COVID-19 because many people prefer fresh and healthy food and turning health conscious. The food coating ingredients are used in many applications in food & beverages industry such as they are used in coating meat and meat products, bakery products, confectionery products and snacks.
Before pandemic, the consumption of bakery products, snacks and confectionery products were more as compared to the situation in the pandemic. The changing life style of people and their preference towards the ready to eat foods has boosted the food coating ingredients market growth. But during pandemic, the focus of people turned towards the healthy food products and thus decreased the demand for food coating ingredients.
But, owing to pandemic situation to increase the shelf life of several foods such as meat and meat products, the food coating ingredients were used because the extended lockdown has disrupted the supply chain in the food industry and thus for preserving the food products, the food coating ingredients were used.
The consumption of preserved food was decreased during the lockdown because people were focusing on consumption of healthy foods. Many companies have closed their manufacturing facilities due to limited supply of raw material and disturbed demand for food coating ingredients. Some companies were operating on very limited work force due to social distancing. The raw material supply was disrupted due to disruption of transportation and sealing of boundaries of countries.
INITIATIVES
The COVID-19 outbreak has affected almost each sector in the economy and food coating ingredients market is one of them. The extended lockdown has badly disrupted the demand and supply of food coating ingredients due to transportation issues. But in the hard situation, many companies were taking initiatives for the availability of products in the market.
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