Protein, Migrating Ingredients Help Sports Category Build Muscle

Increased consumer demand for protein and the migration of popular ingredients from adjacent categories are spurring growth in sports nutrition. Protein helped drive up sales double digits for powders and formulas and the overall category grew 46% from $17.6 billion in 2006 to $25.7 billion in 2011.

Sales in the sports nutrition category are bulking up thanks to increased consumer demand for protein and the migration of popular ingredients from categories adjacent to the fitness space.

Protein is the current golden child of fitness supplement ingredients, Janica Lane, a partner at Partnership Capital Growth, a financial advisory firm in the health and sustainable living spaces, said...

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