The global digestive health market is forecast to hit nearly $60B by 2025, according to a 2020 report by Fior Market Research, LLP. As scientific evidence continues to build in support of gut health’s impact on other bodily functions and systems, ingredients that boost digestive health remain at the forefront of new product development.
Ingredients that affect gut health are characterized as prebiotics, probiotics, synbiotics, and newly defined “postbiotics.” Ongoing research is elucidating the mechanisms by which these ingredients confer health benefits, demonstrating how trending ingredients such as fiber affect the gut microbiome on a molecular level, by interaction with microorganisms either directly or within intestinal cells.