Fuji Keizai Releases Report on Specified Health Food Market in Japan.Tokyo, Japan, Sept 28, 2005 - (JCNN JCNN Japan Corporate News Network ) - Japanese market researcher Fuji Keizai has published a report on the specified health food market in Japan. The report indicates that the overall market for specified health foods products is still growing while there are declines in some products. The report estimates that the market reached 342.1 billion yen ($3.1 bil) in 2004 and is expected to reach 377.1 billion yen ($3.4 bil) in 2006. The report identifies some growing segments: alpha-lipoic acid, gamma aminobutyric acid Noun 1. gamma aminobutyric acid - an amino acid that is found in the central nervous system; acts as an inhibitory neurotransmitter GABA amino acid, aminoalkanoic acid - organic compounds containing an amino group and a carboxylic acid group; "proteins are (GABA GABA ?. GABA abbr. gamma-aminobutyric acid GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid) A neurotransmitter that slows down the activity of nerve cells in the brain. ), and vegetable supplements. The alpha-lipoic acid segment leaped from 60 million yen ($535,000) in 2004 to 7.7 billion yen ($68 mil) in 2006; the GABA segment will leap more than sixfold sixfold Adjective 1. having six times as many or as much 2. composed of six parts Adverb by six times as many or as much Adj. 1. from 2.6 billion yen ($23 mil) to 16.4 billion yen ($146 mil); the vegetable supplement segment will more than double from 6.1 billion yen ($54 mil) to 15 billion yen ($134 mil). Entitled "Market of Specified Health Foods and Promising Ingredients 2005," the 191-page report, available only in Japanese, sells for 105,000 yen ($937) in hardcopy and 115,500 yen ($1,030) with a supplemental CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). . Source: JCN http://www.japancorp.net Copyright [c] 2005 Japan Corporate News Network. All rights reserved. |
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