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The US market for whole grain and high fiber foods grew to $4.79 billion in 2004, up slightly from $4.75 billion in 2000. Industry analysts believe that sales of high fiber and whole grain foods will spike in 2005 with the introduction of the guidelines, and will then decline slowly in the following years. Most growth is expected to come from replacement of refined grains with whole grains in foods that consumers already eat.

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• NEW YORK, April 13 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Department of Agriculture issued new Dietary Guidelines for Americans which stress the importance of increasing intake of whole grain foods and dietary fiber and a reducing intake in refined grains, a leading culprit behind obesity, diabetes, and other health conditions.
• Overall U.S. market for whole grain and high fiber foods remained relatively stable between 2000 and 2004, growing from $4.75 billion to $4.79 billion.
• However, this apparent stability is the result of several volatile categories canceling each other out and powerful trends such as the consumer obsession with low-carb and concurrent aversion to "good-carbs" or grain-based foods.
• The result has been a sequence of product introductions and discontinuations, limiting growth, and belying an impending dramatic growth phase in the market.
• retail sales of whole grain and high fiber foods will spike in 2005 and decline gradually in subsequent years," said Don Montuori, Acquisitions Editor for Packaged Facts.
• "The early growth will stem from health innovations in foods consumers already eat, such as recent changes in cereals, as opposed to consumers' choosing to eat different kinds of foods."
• "The U.S. Market for Whole Grain and High Fiber Foods" focuses primarily on packaged foods that contain a significant amount of fiber derived from whole grains.
• It also analyzes trends in the sale and marketing of high fiber beverages, and surveys other trends in naturally high fiber foods and high fiber or fiber-fortified packaged foods.
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