Latin America Dehydrated Food Market

Latin America Dehydrated Food Market Size (2024 to 2029)

The Global Latin America Dehydrated Food Market is expected to grow from USD 3.75 billion in 2024 to USD 5.44 billion in 2029, with a CAGR of 7.72% between 2024 and 2029. 

Dehydrated Food improves its shelf life, which also has a positive impact on retailers' profit margins as the deterioration rate decreases. Safety is an important factor that also comes into play. Dehydration generally retains most of the nutritional and other properties of fruits and vegetables. Therefore, they are popular with health-conscious consumers.

MARKET DRIVERS AND RESTRAINTS

Dehydrated foods help provide export opportunities and earn foreign exchange. Countries with overproduction can establish food processing companies to gain market opportunities.  Dried vegetables help prevent high level of waste by helping to improve the shelf life of products. Dehydrated Food has a shelf life of a few weeks to several months, which helps customers consume them in the future. The extended shelf life of foods in the dehydration process is obtained by removing moisture, which retains the vegetable free of microorganisms. Due to the various advantages of dehydration technology, the Latin American market for Dehydrated Food is growing. Changes in demand for seasonal products have essential applications for those working in the fresh food supply chain.

Processors and Food manufacturers are observing for seasonal products, owing to growing consumer demand for their taste and flavor at any time of the year.

Over the years, food processors have come up with a solution from producers with the creation of dehydrated food products. This permits them to incorporate dehydrated food products as an ingredient, in order to advance product quality and deliver products according to consumer demand. Premiumization has closed the gap between luxury and the mass market, to give all consumers access to unique and innovative dehydrated food products that have been guaranteed. For food and beverage producers, the premium benefits are obvious. Consumers are now ready to pay higher prices for value-added products with real benefits. Today's customers are gaining confidence in the brand strategy or in the premiumization of final consumer products in terms of product quality. For this reason, manufacturers or even distributors have developed a brand strategy for their fruits and vegetables in various formats at premium levels to gain ground in the regional market for dehydrated foods.

This research report on the Latin America Dehydrated Food market has been segmented and sub-segmented into the following categories.

Latin America Dehydrated Food Market By Type

• Dehydrated Meat Products
• Dehydrated Vegetables
• Dehydrated Fruits
• Dehydrated Dairy Products

Of these segments, meat products are projected to represent the largest Latin America Dehydrated Food Market share, followed by dairy products. Growing demand from manufacturers for processed and canned meat for a higher year is projected to support demand for dehydrated meat products in the future.

Latin America Dehydrated Food Market By Nature

• Organic     
• Conventional  

Latin America Dehydrated Food Market By Technology

• Spray Drying           
• Freeze Drying        
• Vacuum Drying      
• Drum Drying   

The Latin America Dehydrated Food Market can be segmented according to technology including spray drying, freeze drying, vacuum, sun drying, hot air drying and others. Traditionally, of all these segments, the sun-dried dehydration process was the main segment in terms of use by food manufacturers, followed by the hot-air drying process. Nonetheless, owing to the outline of new technologies, spray drying is anticipated to account for the majority in terms of contribution to market revenue, followed by freeze drying over the calculated period. Limited use in food products is anticipated to be the limiting cause for the growing of vacuum drying technology in the Latin America Market in the upcoming future.

Latin America Dehydrated Food Market By Application

• food product manufacturers
• food service & retail
• household

Latin America Dehydrated Food Market By Country

• Argentina
• Chile
• Peru
• Mexico
• Brazil
• Rest of Latin America

The market in Latin America region is anticipated to record substantial revenue growth in the target market over the outlook period.

KEY MARKET PLAYERS

Ajinomoto Co. Inc., Nissin Food Holdings Co. Ltd., House Foods Corp, Ting Hsin International Group, General Mills Inc., Kraft Foods Inc, Unilever China Ltd are some of the notable companies in the Latin America Dehydrated Food market.

RECENT HAPPENINGS IN THE MARKET

• In 2018, dehydrated onions under its brand named Master Chef was launched by a leading Indian conglomerate company ITC Ltd. The product is available in four metropolitan cities in India, including Hyderabad, Kolkata, Delhi and Bangalore, and the company plans to expand the availability of its products in the seven metropolitan cities in the country.
• In February 2019, Symrise AG acquired food ingredient maker International Dehydrated Foods (I.D.F.) and a subsidiary pet food maker American Dehydrated Foods (A.D.F.).
• White & Case advised BNP Paribas and UniCredit Bank AG in financing the acquisition of American Dehydrated Foods LLC, International Dehydrated Foods LLC and IsoNova Technologies LLC (ADF / IDF) by Symrise AG (Symrise). The banks delivered a total funding volume of € 800 million to Symrise over a combination of bridge credit and term credit, along with a capital rise of approximately € 400 million.
• The Department of Justice announced today that it will request Symrise AG to divest its Chicken County, Georgia, chicken feed ingredient manufacturing plant to proceed with the proposed $ 900 million deal of International Dehydrated Foods LLC and American Dehydrated Foods LLC.