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Assessing the Demand for a Functional Food Product: Is There Cannibalization in the Orange Juice Category?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2016

Yan Yuan ,
Oral Capps Jr.  and
Rodolfo M. Nayga Jr.
Yan Yuan
Affiliation:
Research Institute of Economics and Management at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics in Chengdu, Sichuan, P.R. China
Oral Capps Jr.
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas
Rodolfo M. Nayga Jr.
Affiliation:
Food Policy Economics in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Arkansas
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Abstract

The demand for functional foods has increased notably in recent years due to growing consumer interest in diet and health issues. Currently, the food industry is introducing many types of new food products with functional attributes. Consequently, cannibalization is a critical issue for firms that offer multiple products within a certain product category. The identification and assessment of cannibalization are integral factors when making strategic decisions about new product introductions. Using scanner data from Information Resources, Inc. (IRI), pertaining to a particular functional food, namely a phytosterol-enriched product for orange juice, we find that no cannibalization effects exist with respect to its introduction. We also provide estimates of own-price and cross-price elasticities of the orange juice category using a synthetic demand system.

Keywords

functional foodsphytosterolsorange juice industrycannibalizationsynthetic demand system
Type
Contributed Papers
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Agricultural and Resource Economics Review , Volume 38 , Issue 2 , October 2009 , pp. 153 - 165
Copyright
Copyright © 2009 Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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