Organic Foods are produced by comply the standards of organic farming. In other words, diets which promote well-being and health, prevent from diseases, helps in curing illness, and also protect the environment are termed as Organic foods.

Food Consumption patterns are changing all over the world. Growing awareness towards the consumption of healthy food and beverages is the factor for the same. Unhealthy food and its consequences such as heart diseases have aware consumers to adopt food which provides them nutrition. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), an unhealthy diet is the key factor for Non-Communicable Diseases which includes heart diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and others. Many public health campaigns have organized many communication activities for spreading awareness for the same.

The market has been segmented on the basis of Product Type and Country. Based on Product Type, the market is segmented on the basis of Organic Foods and Organic Beverages. Organic Foods includes Organic dairy products, Organic fruits & vegetables, Organic meat, fish & poultry, Organic frozen and processed foods, and Others (Organic baby foods, organic groceries, and so on). Organic Beverages are further segmented into Organic coffee & tea, Organic beer & wine, Organic non-dairy beverages, and other organic beverages. Based on Country, the market has been segmented into Germany, U.K., France, Russia, Spain, Italy and Rest of Europe.

The key player operating the organic food & beverages market are Amys Kitchen Inc., General Mills Inc., Hain Celestial Group, Inc., Starbucks Corporation, The Kroger Co., United Natural Foods, Inc., The WhiteWave Foods Co., and Whole Foods Market, Inc.

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1. Market Scope & Methodology

2. Executive Summary

3. Market Overview

4. Europe Organic Food & Beverages Market

5. Europe Organic Food & Beverages Market - By Country

6. Company Profiles

- Amys Kitchen Inc.

- The WhiteWave Foods Company

- General Mills Inc.

- Hain Celestial Group, Inc.

- Starbucks Corporation

- Whole Foods Market Inc.

- United Natural Foods, Inc.

- The Kroger Co.

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The organic and natural food applies broadly to food that is minimally processed and free of any chemicals or any artificial preservatives. Organic food consumption has been increasing from years, so do their manufacturing.

According to the United States Department of Agriculture, there are around 20,000 stores and 3 out of four conventional grocery stores are producing organic food in U.S. Additionally, consumer demand for organic food is also helping in the growth of startup companies. Recently, General Mills invested around $3 million in the new organic granola company due to the rising demand for organic foods. For instance, new startup company Yumi, have come up with organic foods and products for babies, the company have gained attention of consumers rapidly. The start-up has raised the demand for organic foods, globally.

The market has been segmented on the basis of Product Type and Country. Based on Product Type, the market is segmented on the basis of Organic Foods and Organic Beverages. Organic Foods includes Organic dairy products, Organic fruits & vegetables, Organic meat, fish & poultry, Organic frozen and processed foods, and Others (Organic baby foods, organic groceries, and so on). Organic Beverages are further segmented into Organic coffee & tea, Organic beer & wine, Organic non-dairy beverages, and other organic beverages. Based on Country, the market has been segmented into U.S., Canada, Mexico, and Rest of North America.

The key player operating the organic food & beverages market are Amys Kitchen Inc., General Mills Inc., Hain Celestial Group, Inc., Starbucks Corporation, The Kroger Co., United Natural Foods, Inc., The WhiteWave Foods Co., and Whole Foods Market, Inc.

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1. Market Scope & Methodology

2. Executive Summary

3. Market Overview

4. North America Organic Food & Beverages Market

5. North America Organic Food & Beverages Market - By Country

6. Company Profiles

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When you buy organic produce, meat, or dairy products at your local farmers market or Whole Foods, you probably feel good about yourself, even though youre paying more. Why? Because organic food is better for you, for the livestock, and for the environment right?

According to a video narrated by Bjrn Lomborg, president of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, a U.S.-based economics think tank, and published by PragerU, a conservative website co-founded by radio host Dennis Prager, almost everything we think we know about organic food is a lie. Lomborg breaks down the ways the organic farming industry is allegedly fooling us into paying more for a product that isnt necessarily going to change the world (or make you any healthier):

Lomberg is the author of The Skeptical Environmentalist, a controversial 2001 book devoted to debunking many generally accepted environmental theories and predictions, and espousing the use of cost-benefit analysis in environmental matters.

The assertions by the organic food industry that Lomborg claims to refute include:

Organic produce is healthier for you. A 2012 study by researchers based at Stanford University showed that organic produce is not nutritionally superior, even though a blind research test from Cornell University showed that people are willing to pay up to 23 percent more because they believe organic produce is better for you. (It should be noted that many of the supposed health benefits of organic food have to do with the absence of pesticides and other potentially harmful chemicals, not solely with its nutritional value.)

Animal welfare is much better on organic farms. A five-year study from Oregon State University found that animals are no happier or healthier on organic farms than on traditional farms. Pigs and poultry are able to spend time outdoors, but this leaves them open to pathogens and predator attacks, Lomborg argues.

Organic food is better for the environment. Lomborg explains that organic farming uses less energy but more land because fewer pesticides and fertilizers are used, making it less efficient than standard farming.

Learn more about why organic food is so expensive and weigh for yourself whether or not its worth it.

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It wasnt double digit growth for organic food sales, but 8.4% growth for organic food sales in 2016 is nothing to quibble about.

The OTA report notes that the 8.4% increase in organic fruit and vegetable sales in 2016 - the same percentage as overall sales gains for organic food - is nearly triple the 3.3% growth for total fruit and vegetable sales. The survey claims that organic fruits and vegetables account for 15% of the produce that Americans eat. Does that sound a smidge too high? Perhaps a little, it seems to me.

The survey numbers from the OTA differ in no small degree from the United Fresh Produce Associations FreshFacts on Retail report, which pegged organic produce sales at retail (not including processing or foodservice outlet sales) at $4.46 billion in 2016, up 13.2% (double digit!) from 2015. Whats more, the United Fresh numbers - from Nielsen Fresh - said organic sales in 2016 accounted for 9% of all fresh produce sales. The 9% number from FreshFacts is fully 40% below the OTAs 15% estimate for organics share of the produce market.

Of course, the OTA release takes an enthusiastic approach to the sector, and there should be no apologies for that.

The first sentence of the news release reads:

The robust American organic sector stayed on its upward trajectory in 2016, gaining new market share and shattering records, as consumers across the United States ate and used more organic products than ever before, according to the Organic Trade Associations (OTAs) 2017 Organic Industry Survey....

This wording is only slightly different than about a year ago, when the Organic trade Associations 2016 Organic Industry Survey was released with these words:

The booming U.S. organic industry posted new records in 2015, with total organic product sales hitting a new benchmark of $43.3 billion, up a robust 11% from the previous years record level and far outstripping the overall food markets growth rate of 3%, according to the Organic Trade Associations 2016 Organic Industry Survey.

So, the OTA says, the double digit growth rate of 2015 and many previous years has settled down below 9%. The point is that organic sales are growing at several times faster than the overall market and warrant the attention and marketers and retailers.

Here are more highlights from the 2017 OTA survey:

Where to from here?

Organic Trade Association CEO and executive director Laura Batcha said the organic sales are growing but said more is needed to keep the sector growing. From the release: ...the organic sector is facing challenges to continue its growth. We need more organic farmers in this country to meet our growing organic demand, and the organic sector needs to have the necessary tools to compete on a level playing field. That means federal, state and local programs that help support organic research, and provide the organic farmer with a fully equipped tool kit to be successful, she said in the release.

We know the OTA wants a federal promotion and research checkoff for organic products, but nothing is assured for that outcome now.

When will organic growth plateau and begin to look like the pedestrian results of the overall U.S. food sector? The larger the sector gets, the harder it is to capture big percentage sales gains. Organic has room to grow, but the comfortable moniker of double digit organic produce sales gains must be revised - at least according to the OTA 2017 survey.

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Many people are rightfully disappointed by how most conventional farmers grow food, which has springboarded a massive movement around organic food. This is supposedly food derived from crops and meat thats been grown in a healthier and simpler manner, akin to how it was done in the good ol days before intensive agriculture. Because organic food has a smaller yield, buyers often have to pay a premium for the same amount of conventional-corporation-poisoned food thats a market worth $35 billion in the US. But is the price tag really worth it? Organic food buyers will tell you theyre not only providing themselves and family with healthier, better quality food theyre also helping the environment. A recent study, however, suggests thats not the case at all.

According to the study authored by Hanna Treu fromHumboldt University of Berlin and colleagues, Germans who ate an organic diet required 40% more land to grow their food than those who ate a conventional diet. And in the end, the two diets had roughly the same carbon footprint.

These counter-intuitive findings can be explained by meat consumption. As we often write here at ZME, growing meat is the most unsustainable kind of agriculture, particularly beef, as it requires immense amounts of water, land, and feedstock. Organic meat even more. So, although the participants who ate a conventional diet consumed 45% more meat than those who preferred organic, their land use was far smaller.

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These findings arent at all surprising given a previous studywhich found organic farms have a 20% lower crop yield than conventional farms.

Sales of organic food have grown by 20 percent annually, and experts predict that the industrys share of the U.S. food market is expected to grow from about 2 percent to roughly 3.5 percent by the end of the decade. About10,000 American farmers have made the transition to organic food production on about 2.3 million acres of land, according to the USDAs Economic Resources Service.

If all US wheat production were grown organically, an additional 12.4 million hectares (30.6 million acres) would be needed to match 2014 production levels. If you extrapolate these numbers for the rest of the world, it soon becomes clear that organic farming is unsuitable as a mainstream option.

Bearing this, as well as the higher costs, in mind, it seems unlikely organic food will ever become the go-to choice for most Americans. There simply isnt enough room to farm it and it might not even be worth it. Thats because contrary to popular opinion:

Journal reference: Hanna Treu, et al. Carbon footprints and land use of conventional and organic diets in Germany. J Clean Prod 161: 127-142. Published online: 2017.

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One of the great frauds of our time is the promiscuous use of organic as another form of virtue-signalling, and also of out-of-control marketing. I doubt there is any serious evidence of health differences between people who eat a diet rich in organic produce versus people who consume equal amounts of supposedly non-organic produce.

Where do people think supposedly non-organic carrots come froma Starfleet replicator? Yes, I get the idea that it refers to food produced without conventional fertilizers or pesticides, but by now it is well known that this kind of organic produce uses a lot more land than conventional non-organic agriculture, thus reducing the amount of land available for other natural uses, like habitat, or just lying fallow. How much more land? A lot.

The Journal of Cleaner Production has just published a study out of Germany that finds organic food uses up to 40 percent more land than conventional agriculture:

Carbon footprints and land use of conventional and organic diets in Germany

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Organically produced food is often considered more environmentally friendly than conventionally produced food, and Germany is one of the most important and rapidly growing markets for organic food in Europe. However, the carbon footprints and land use of organic diets, and how they compare to conventional diets, have not yet been quantified. Using food consumption data from the German National Nutrition Survey II, and carbon footprint and land-use data from life cycle assessment studies of conventional and organic food products, carbon footprints and land use of conventional and organic diets in Germany were calculated for three consumer categories: men, women and their combined unweighted average. Conventional diets are defined as the average diet of consumers who do not buy organic food products; organic diets are the average diets of consumers whose food purchases include a large share of organic food products. Greenhouse gas emissions associated with land use change are not included. The carbon footprints of the average conventional and organic diets are essentially equal (ca. 1250 CO2-eq cap1 year1), while the land use to provide food is ca. 40% greater in the organic diet (ca. 1900 and 2750m2 of land cap1 year1 in the conventional and organic diets, respectively).

And if you use that much more land for producing food, where are you going to put all the new windmills?

And dont forget: were all vegetarians, but some of us are content to let the cow or chicken do most of the work first.

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Americans are buying more organic food and household products than ever, according to a new survey published last week.

The research, conducted by the Organic Trade Association, the nations leading organic industry group, offers a glimpse into where there is the greatest demand for organic products and where such demand might be the weakest.

Sales of organic food and goods crested $47 billion in 2016, an increase of more than 8 percent over the previous year. And while there is a growing number of organic personal care and household products on the market, organic food still accounts for the vast majority of all organic sales with $43 billion last year. Organic food now boasts more than 5 percent of the nations total food sales.

Fresh fruits and vegetables are most consumers gateway purchase into organic. It is easier for most people to understand the potential benefits of buying raw produce that was grown using organic methods than it is to grasp how organic standards translate into a processed or packaged food.

Meat and poultry is another segment showing strong consumer demand for organic. Sales of organic meat and poultry grew more than 17 percent to $991 million last year, marking the categorys biggest yearly gain.

All segments included, organic food sales grew 8.4 percent last year compared with the overall food markets nearly flat growth rate of 0.6 percent. This year-over-year growth has been consistent for more than a decade. In fact, the segment has more than doubled since 2007, when organic sales were just below $20 billion.

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The ever-growing U.S. organic sector saw much success in 2016, according to this monthsOrganic Trade Associations 2017 Organic Industry Survey, which was released at their Annual Policy Conference.

More specifically, the organic food industry is booming. Especially when considering that the $47 billion industry sales total from 2016a remarkable difference from just ten years agowhen the sales total failed to reach the $20 billion mark.

The organic industry continues to be a real bright spot in the food and ag economy both at the farm-gate and check-out counter, said Laura Batcha, CEO and Executive Director of the Organic Trade Association.

The Success of Organic Produce Currently, organic food represents 5.3 percent of total food sales in the U.S., and

according to the Organic Trade Association, fruits and vegetables remain the largest contributor to this organic food sales growthbringing in a reported $15.6 billion last year.

Fruits and vegetables continue serving as the gateway to organic products for the majority of shoppers, accounting for nearly 40 percent of organic food sales growth.

In the produce aisle the benefits of organic are probably the easiest to understand, the report said.

We touch the fruit or vegetable, smell it, and immediately make that connection between that carrot, for example, growing in clean healthy soils and putting it into our bodies.The Rise of Organic Protein and Condiments Theres been a growing amount of U.S. consumers choosing to go organic due to its all encompassing benefits. Particularly, people have become more aware of the health benefits of consuming meat and poultry when its natural, hormone-free, or grass-fed.

In 2016, this led to an organic food sales growth in meat and poultry in the United States of over 17 percenttotal salesof $991 million. The organic food sales growth trend indicates that organic protein sales could reach over $1 billion this year.

While condiments dont get as much of the hype as their counterparts in the organic food industry, the category is also experiencing an organic food sales growth.

For example, organic dip sales have sizably increasedleading to asurge of 41 percent in sales for 2016. That meant an impressive total of $57 million in sales of organic dips alone for that year. Additionally, sales of organic spices also increased in 2016 by 35 percent to $193 million.

Organic Products Beyond the Food Aisle In their survey, The Organic Trade Association indicated that consumers are no longer simply interested in organic food, but in products that encompass all household needs. Demand for organic products mean goods for bedrooms, wardrobes, bathrooms, and all throughout consumers homes.

Organic products outside the food category experienced a reported surge in sales by almost nine percent, leading to a total of $3.9 billion in the U.S. last year. This is due in large part to the increased sales of organic supplements, fiber, and personal care products. The organic fiber market has experienced some supply concerns, suffering from a lack of organic textiles.

However, U.S. organic cotton farmers produced a reported all-time high of 17,000-plus bales in 2016, which should offset the aforementioned supply shortage.Lack of Supply and Rising Demand According to Batcha, the widespread popularity of organic products has lead to some challenges. There is a lack of organic U.S. farmers to match organic food sales growth and its demands.

[T]he organic sector needs to have the necessary tools to grow and compete on a level playing field. That means federal, state and local programs that help support organic research, and provide the organic farmer with a fully equipped toolkit to be successful, explained Batcha.

Finding more organic U.S. farmers should come with ease thanks to the upward trajectory the sector is currently experiencing.

The booming attraction to all things organic is opening pathways of business opportunities in many areas that deal with the supply chain process of these products. As Batcha noted:

Organic farmers are not just staying in business, theyre often expanding. Organic handling, manufacturing, and processing facilities are being opened, enlarged and retooled. Organic farms, suppliers, and handlers are creating jobs across the country, and the organic sector is growing and creating the kinds of healthy, environmentally friendly products that consumers are increasingly demanding.

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People in France are buying more and more organic produce and a survey has found that nine out of 10 people ate organic foods last year.

The rise in interest saw the bio market grow by 22% in 2016 to 7billion with 69% of people telling the Agence Bio/CSA study that they regularly bought organic.

Florent Guhl, head of Agence Bio promotion group, said: Organic is growing in scale but is managing to keep its fundamental values.

He said the 50% of the people who bought organic were changing their way of eating and watching what they ate with 65% opting for seasonal products, 61% opting for fresh products and 58% aiming to cut food waste.

The strong market growth has come with the arrival of new specialist shops which account for 25% of the growth and make up 35% of the sector. That does not mean leading supermarkets are being left behind as they are offering their own ranges on specialist shelves and make up 45% of the market.

One area that the organic movement needs to improve upon, however, is in increasing the amount of bio product grown in France as 24% of that sold is imported, although Mr Guhl said that this was mainly for processed products.

The Connexion will be running an article on organic foods in our July issue where we look at the costs and possible benefits. Do you think organic food is better for you? Let us know at news@connexionfrance.com

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