The most important and dynamic market represents the USA with an estimated market share
Of more than 50% .In total functional food have a market share of around 2-3% in the Us food market, and this percentage is expected to be double by 2008 . This growth can be explained by the fact, that the legislative framework was, and still is more favourable than in Europe. According to Datamonitor predictions, the US market is likely to reach 25 billion US$ by the year of 2009