North America Wheat Flour Market Forecast to 2027 - COVID-19 Impact and Regional Analysis By Product Type, End User, Application, and Distribution Channel

  • October 2020 •
  • 83 pages •
  • Report ID: 5989592 •
  • Format: PDF
The wheat flour market in North America is expected to reach US$ 44,439.08millionby 2027 fromUS$36,347.79million in 2019 and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 2.9% from 2020 to 2027.

Health benefits of wheat flourare bolstering the growth of thewheat flour market.Wheat flour is considered one of the most popular food ingredients consumed worldwide.

It is widely known for its nutritional properties and health benefits such as reducing cholesterol levels, regulating metabolism, minimizing obesity, and balancing blood sugar levels.Wheat flour is considered as a rich source of gluten—a protein that adds strength and elasticity to the baked products.

The amount of gluten may vary according to different varieties of wheat flour available.Additionally, wheat flour is composed of highly nutritious fiber and has abundant presence of essential nutrients, such as vitamins, minerals, and catalytic elements, especially vitamin B and E.

Moreover, wheat flour is known to impart nourishment, skin protection, and energy required for overall body functions. Wheat manufacturers have also introduced vitamin-A fortified wheat flour to cater to the nutritional needs of the population. Owing to its properties, wheat flour is used in numerous applications across several industries, including food and personal care. The demand for wheat flour is especially high in food industries due to its growing need in bakery and confectionery products.

Rising inclination toward healthy lifestyle and growing instances of diabetes, cancer, and other such diseases are among the factors driving the growth of the market under study.Also, rising preference toward convenience staple foods, along with growing preference of high-protein flour products, is positively affecting the market growth.

Furthermore, several initiatives are being taken to support food fortification as a measure to minimize the instances of malnutrition.Evolving trends of healthy food, rising application of wheat flour in bakery goods and confectionaries, and launch of products with wheat flour as an ingredient are driving the demand for wheat flour across North America.

Additionally, the growth of food & beverages, cosmetics, and other industries is expected to propel the demand for wheat flour across North America.

In terms of application, the bread segment held the largest share in the North America wheat flour market in 2019.There has been an increasing demand for wheat flour bread across North America, owing to its high nutritional profile.

Wheat flour is the considered as the common varieties of flour extensively used in preparation of bread.Wheat flour is composed of gluten, which is considered key source of protein and is quite significant ingredient in yeast-leavened breads.

In breads, wheat flour such as all-purpose flour, white bread flour, fine French bread flour, high gluten flour, semolina flour and other such kind of flours are significantly used in preparation of different varieties of breads.These flours can be used alone or blended with enriched one or other types of wheat flours depending on the type of bread being developed.

With the rise in consumption of bread as a part of breakfast along with rapid innovations are some factors likely to affect the demand of wheat flour in bread-making purpose.

COVID-19 has affected economies and industries in various countries due to lockdowns, travel bans, and business shutdowns.In North America, the US has the highest number of confirmed cases of COVID-19, compared to Canada and Mexico.

This is likely to negatively affect the food &beverages industry in the region as, due to the COVID-19, the supply chain is likely to get affected. In addition, the overall manufacturing processes and research and development activities are also expected to impact the market growth.

The process also serves the purpose of obtaining overview and forecast for the North America wheat flour market with respect to all the segments pertaining to the region.Also, multiple primary interviews have been conducted with industry participants and commentators to validate the data, as well as to gain more analytical insights into the topic.

The participants who typically take part in such a process include industry experts, such as VPs, business development managers, market intelligence managers, and national sales managers, along with external consultants, such as valuation experts, research analysts, and key opinion leaders specializing in the North America wheat flour market.Key players operating in the North America wheat flour marketincludeArcher-Daniels-Midland Company; Ardent Mills, LLC; General Mills Inc.; George Weston Foods Limited; King Arthur Baking Company, Inc.; KORFEZ Flour Group; and Manildra Group.

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New Fallout From ‘The Collision That Changed The World’

“These results are different from anything people have previously seen,” said Emma Kast, a graduate student in geosciences and the lead author on a paper coming out in Science on April 26. “The magnitude of the reconstructed change took us by surprise.”

Kast used microscopic seashells to create a record of ocean nitrogen over a period from 70 million years ago — shortly before the extinction of the dinosaurs — until 30 million years ago. This record is an enormous contribution to the field of global climate studies, said John Higgins, an associate professor of geosciences at Princeton and a co-author on the paper.

“In our field, there are records that you look at as fundamental, that need to be explained by any sort of hypothesis that wants to make biogeochemical connections,” Higgins said. “Those are few and far between, in part because it’s very hard to create records that go far back in time. Fifty-million-year-old rocks don’t willingly give up their secrets. I would certainly consider Emma’s record to be one of those fundamental records. From now on, people who want to engage with how the Earth has changed over the last 70 million years will have to engage with Emma’s data.”

In addition to being the most abundant gas in the atmosphere, nitrogen is key to all life on Earth. “I study nitrogen so that I can study the global environment,” said Daniel Sigman, Princeton’s Dusenbury Professor of Geological and Geophysical Sciences and the senior author on the paper. Sigman initiated this project with Higgins and then-Princeton postdoctoral researcher Daniel Stolper, who is now an assistant professor of Earth and planetary science at the University of California-Berkeley.

Every organism on Earth requires “fixed” nitrogen — sometimes called “biologically available nitrogen.” Nitrogen makes up 78% of our planet’s atmosphere, but few organisms can “fix” it by converting the gas into a biologically useful form. In the oceans, cyanobacteria in surface waters fix nitrogen for all other ocean life. As the cyanobacteria and other creatures die and sink downward, they decompose.

Nitrogen has two stable isotopes, 15N and 14N. In oxygen-poor waters, decomposition uses up “fixed” nitrogen. This occurs with a slight preference for the lighter nitrogen isotope, 14N, so the ocean’s 15N-to-14N ratio reflects its oxygen levels.

That ratio is incorporated into tiny sea creatures called foraminifera during their lives, and then preserved in their shells when they die. By analyzing their fossils — collected by the Ocean Drilling Program from the North Atlantic, North Pacific, and South Atlantic — Kast and her colleagues were able to reconstruct the 15N-to-14N ratio of the ancient ocean, and therefore identify past changes in oxygen levels.

Oxygen controls the distribution of marine organisms, with oxygen-poor waters being bad for most ocean life. Many past climate warming events caused decreases in ocean oxygen that limited the habitats of sea creatures, from microscopic plankton to the fish and whales that feed on them. Scientists trying to predict the impact of current and future global warming have warned that low levels of ocean oxygen could decimate marine ecosystems, including important fish populations.

When the researchers assembled their unprecedented geologic record of ocean nitrogen, they found that in the 10 million years after dinosaurs went extinct, the 15N-to-14N ratio was high, suggesting that ocean oxygen levels were low. They first thought that the warm climate of the time was responsible, as oxygen is less soluble in warmer water. But the timing told another story: the change to higher ocean oxygen occurred around 55 million years ago, during a time of continuously warm climate.

“Contrary to our first expectations, global climate was not the primary cause of this change in ocean oxygen and nitrogen cycling,” Kast said. The more likely culprit? Plate tectonics. The collision of India with Asia — dubbed “the collision that changed the world” by legendary geoscientist Wally Broecker, a founder of modern climate research — closed off an ancient sea called the Tethys, disturbing the continental shelves and their connections with the open ocean.

“Over millions of years, tectonic changes have the potential to have massive effects on ocean circulation,” said Sigman. But that doesn’t mean climate change can be discounted, he added. “On timescales of years to millenia, climate has the upper hand.”


COVID-19 Protocols

COVID-19 protocols guide (for Victoria's protocols, please contact her directly)

Section A: Plan for Return to Clinical Practice (massage therapy)

Section B: Patient Self-Assessment Questionnaire

Section C: What this means for your appointment (massage therapy)

Please be aware that the "Plan for Return to Clinical Practice" and the "Patient Self-Assessment Questionnaire" are fluid documents that may change at any time, pursuant to changes from the CMTBC, the RMTBC, of the office of the PHO. Thank you

Plan for Return to Clinical Practice [2020-05-14] [edited 2020-05-16] [edited 2020-09-07]

1- Ensure that the patient understands that while the RMT has taken measures to minimize risk of viral transmission, the nature of massage therapy means that physical distancing is not possible in the treatment room.

2- Advise the patient regarding the use of PPE. (masks, etc)

3- The patient must complete an honest evaluation of the presence of the following symptoms: fever, chills, cough, shortness of breath, sore throat/painful swallowing, stuffy or runny nose, loss of sense of smell, headache, muscle aches, fatigue, loss of appetite. The patient must answer the following questions:

  • Has the patient limited their contacts and followed the advice of the PHO?

  • Has the patient had extensive contact with individuals outside their immediate family, pod, or unit (other than service workers at grocery stores, banks, other)?

  • Is the patient aware of anyone in their contacts who has COVID-19 symptoms?

4- The patient must not have left BC within the 14 days prior to the appointment

5- The day prior to treatment, the patient must complete the Pre-screening Questionnaire which will be sent in an email, and RMTs must complete the BC Covid-19 Self- Assessment daily.

6- For immunocompromised or at-risk health groups, the patient and RMT must discuss the benefits of treatment, and ensure that the benefits outweigh the risks to the patient’s health

Arrival screening:

1-The patient and RMT must review the steps taken in the pre-screening to ensure that they were completed, and cancel the treatment if the patient does not meet the pre-screening criteria.

2- The patient must be aware that they are empowered to make decisions regarding their own safety in the treatment environment - ex. The patient can ask that the RMT wear gloves or goggles, if the patient so desires.

3- For immunocompromised or at-risk health groups, the RMT may decide to take extra preventative measures even if the patient does not demand them. If the patient does not consent to extra preventative measures (ex does not want the RMT to wear a mask or other PPE), the RMT may cancel the treatment in order to protect the patient.

Physical distancing:

1-The patient must follow the clearly marked lines for direction of travel through the waiting area to ensure 2m of clearance between people.

2-The fabric waiting room chairs will be removed and replace with 2 plastic chairs that can easily be sanitized - these chairs will seldom be used but will be there in case elderly or infirm patients require a place to rest.

3-The patient must arrive unaccompanied unless patient is a minor who requires parent/guardian, or infirm and needs assistance.

4-The patient is required to wait outside the clinic on the second floor breezeway at the area marked with the “WAITING FOR TOWN CENTRE INTEGRATED THERAPIES” sign.

5-The patient will be let in and out by the RMT, who will use sanitized barriers to touch door handles so that the patient touches nothing.

6- Physical distancing is not possible during hands-on treatment, which is why pre-screening, hand hygiene, and enhanced cleaning are essential to minimize risk to all.

7-The clinic will place signage in the common areas of 3041 Anson Ave regarding physical distancing on the stairwells and in the elevator.

Hand Hygiene:

1-The patient must either:

wash their hands with soap and warm water for a minimum of 20 seconds

use alcohol-based hand sanitizer on the fronts and back of both hands

upon arrival to and departure from the clinic.

2- If the patient’s hands are visibly soiled, the patient must wash them with soap and water, not just hand sanitizer.

3- The RMT must wash hands with warm water and soap for a minimum of 20 seconds before and after every treatment, and at any other time when they have touched common surfaces or any potential contaminant.

4- Hand washing protocols must be posted at every sink

5-To prevent handling of money or cards, fully contactless payment can be made by e-transfer to (preferred) or the patient can upload their credit card into our secure Jane Payments feature in their patient profile. Receipts are emailed to the patient.

6- Tissues will be provided in the treatment room so that the patient may open the door without touching the door knob directly.

Face Touching Avoidance:

1-The patient must be reminded that coronavirus can be spread by touch if a person has used their hand/s to cover a cough or a sneeze.

2- The patient should be invited to use tissues supplied by the clinic if they need to touch their face due to a tickle or itch that they need to address. There must be tissues available to the patient in reception, the treatment rooms, and the washroom.

3- The patient must be made aware that proper mask use requires hand sanitizing before and after touching a mask - every time the mask is touched.

4- The RMT must use a hand towel or tissue if they need to touch their face.

Enhanced Cleaning and Sanitizing:

1-Visibly soiled surface must be cleaned immediately and then disinfected.

2-High-touch surfaces (handles, knobs, taps, computers, phones, stools, light switches, counters, chairs..) must be disinfected after every patient, even if they do not appear to be soiled.

3-Linens must continue to be washed in hot soapy water after each use.

4- Sanitizing should be announced and if possible performed in view of patient to reinforce the steps taken to promote the safety of all.

5- Time between patients to thoroughly sanitize will be scheduled, and so a 15-minute buffer will be in place between appointments to allow for sanitizing and for escorting the leaving patient out of the clinic and the arriving patient into the clinic.

6- The treatment table including face cradle and arm rests will continue to be cleaned after each treatment, and the face cradle and arm rests will be sanitized a second time in view of the incoming patient.

7- Thermophores and electrical blankets will no longer be used.

8- Washroom taps, levers, and door handles will be disinfected with Lysol after each use. The washroom will be thoroughly disinfected a minimum of twice daily.

9- If desired, the patient can leave the clinic with a tissue to use as a contact barrier to press the elevator buttons and door handles.

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE):

1-The patient and RMT will both wear masks, if the patient can bring their own, this will be helpful. The RMT will have have clean fabric re-usable masks and single-use disposable masks available for patient use.

2- The RMT will without question wear PPE such as gown, goggles, or gloves as requested by the patient, in order to help the patient feel feel safe.

3- Hands must be washed prior to putting on a mask, prior to removing a mask, and after disposing of a mask in the garbage.

4- The RMT will have single-use vinyl gloves and re-usable (disinfected) goggles if the patient requests their use.

Professional Obligations:

1- The RMT must call Public Health if any patient alleges that they contracted COVID-19 from the RMT.

2- The RMT must then cease practice and self-isolate until Public Health has investigated and provided direction.

3- The RMT must obtain informed consent from the patient acknowledging that:

  • any massage therapy treatment involves some risk of COVID-19 transmission

  • the RMT is following a protocol to reduce or mitigate risk, but that risk cannot be reduced to zero;

  • the patient consents to treatment despite some risk

The RMT then documents the patient’s consent.

PATIENT SELF-ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE [2020-05-14] [edited 2020-05-16] [edited 2020-06-10] [edited 2020-09-07]

1-Are you experiencing any of the following: YES/ NO

  • Severe chest pain

  • Having a very hard time waking up

  • Feeling confused

  • Losing consciousness

2-Are you experiencing any of the following: YES/ NO

  • Mild to moderate shortness of breath

  • Inability to lie down because of difficulty breathing

3-Are you experiencing cold, flu or COVID-19-like symptoms, even mild ones? YES/ NO

4-Have you travelled outside BC within the last 14 days? YES/ NO

5-Did you provide care or have close contact with a person with confirmed COVID-19?

Note: This means you would have been contacted by your health authority’s public health team. YES/ NO

6-Are you assessing your risks and taking precautions to protect yourself and those around you in accordance with the PHO and the Chief Medical Officer of Canada (e.g. stay at home if you are unwell, no large gatherings, be physically distant from others, wash hands often, wear a mask in public spaces, etc)? YES/NO

7-Have you had extensive contact with individuals outside your immediate family, pod, or unit (does not include grocery shopping or errands completed with appropriate physically distant procedures, or controlled/stable school cohorts/learning pods)? YES/ NO

8-Are you aware of anyone in your contacts who has COVID-19 symptoms? YES/ NO

Informed consent statement specific to COVID-19 enhanced safety protocols:

I understand that while TOWN CENTRE INTEGRATED THERAPIES (TCIT) has taken measures to minimize the risk of viral transmission, the nature of massage therapy means that physical distancing is not possible in the treatment room. I understand that TCIT has a stringent protocol, following all the guidelines outlined by the RMTBC, the CMTBC, and PHO to mitigate risk, but the risk cannot be reduced to zero. I consent to treatment despite this risk.

___________________ ______________________ ____________

Name (print) signature YYYY/MM/DD

C. What this means for your appointment

  • The day before your appointment you will receive a phone call from us. This will likely occur between 7:00 and 9:00pm to increase the likelihood that you are home, not consuming your evening meal, and have not yet gone to bed. (if there is a more convenient time to call, please let us know and we will do our best to accommodate that). We will run through a pre-screening script with you, and ensure that you have completed the Pre-screening Questionnaire - most of which is directly from the BC COVID-19 Symptom Self-Assessment. Your honest and thoughtful answers are required to maintain the safety of everyone. If you satisfy us that you pass the assessment, your appointment will stand; if not, your appointment will be canceled or rescheduled.

  • Another before-treatment aspect for you to consider is payment: we now only accept contactless payment. Please consider sending an etransfer before your appointment or please add your credit card Information to your patient profile in our Jane booking system - your information is encrypted and we cannot see it. Everything we can do to save time in administrative areas gives you more hands-on time!

  • On the day of your appointment, come to the clinic alone (save for reasons of requiring physical assistance or being a minor child) and be sure to follow the Social Distancing signage regarding the stairwell and elevator. You will be asked to wear a mask in the clinic, so if you have one already, please wear it. Walk out onto the outdoor breezeway (second floor) and wait at the laminated sign telling you to do so until your RMT comes to greet you. The RMT will open all doors for you, so that everything remains contactless.

  • Your RMT will guide you into the clinic, where you will follow the markings on the floor to your choice of hand sanitizer station or sink for hand-washing. If you did not bring a mask, you will now be given one to put on using your newly-sanitized hands.

  • Your RMT will now explain about the transmission of coronavirus via touch, will ensure that you feel empowered to make decisions regarding your own safety, will have you complete a screening and informed consent document, and will decide whether or not treatment can occur. If you are deemed unfit to receive treatment , you will not be charged any fee.

  • Your RMT will bring you into the treatment room, perform any interview and assessment necessary, clean the face cradle and arm rests for a second time in your presence, and then leave the room for you to get ready on the table. The fabric treatment room chairs have been removed and plastic chairs are being used instead. Please place any belongings on the plastic chair and the hexagonal table, because these surfaces can be easily sanitized after you leave.

  • Your RMT will begin and end each hands-on section of the appointment with handwashing in warm and soapy water for 20+ seconds.

  • Since we now only accept contactless payment, at the end of treatment your RMT will charge your credit card for your treatment or ensure that your etransfer has been received, and issue an emailed receipt. No paper receipts will be supplied. If you do not book your own appointments online (preferred, as it saves time), your RMT may also schedule your next appointment at this time.

  • Your RMT will leave the room while you get ready, and attend to any sanitizing or laundry that needs to be addressed while you are getting ready to leave the clinic. When you are ready to leave the treatment room, you will open the door using a tissue as a barrier, remove your fabric mask if you are using clinic-supplied re-usable one, and then use hand sanitizer or warm water and soap to clean your hands before leaving. Your RMT will open the door for you to leave.

  • After you have left, your RMT will sanitize door handles and any surfaces that were touched, put on gloves to remove the used table linens and fabric face mask putting them either directly into the washer or into a basket for soiled linens only, clean the massage table and its face cradle and armrests.


About Us

We would like to begin by answering the question “What is saffron ? And then tell you a little more about Zoetic Ltd.

This delicious aromatic spice comes from the “saffron crocus“. Our farmers painstakingly pick the bright red/purple threads and leave them to dry. Their main use is as a flavouring or colouring in recipes. However, as you will read on this site, there are many other uses. Saffron has the distinction of being the planet’s most expensive spice

We will also give you a brief history of the spice, explain how it’s grown and share some of our favourite recipes.

In addition to saffron, our family also imports top quality cinnamon from Sri Lanka and nuts from Iran.

My wife and I have always considered ourselves very lucky to have both grown up in Iranian farming families. Nothing can compare with the freedom and imagination of a child living on a farm.

Of course, we will never forget the very hard work that keeps a farm running. One topic that always got a mention when a group of farmers met was how they were paid less than what they deserved for their product. So, the idea of somehow setting up a better system that would be more favourable to them always lingered at the back of our minds.

Various friends in the UK frequently asked us where they could buy top quality Iranian produce in London. So, whenever we got the opportunity to go home, we always brought some saffron spice and/or pistachio nuts back for them.

During a recent visit back to Iran, a group of small farmers asked if we would be able to sell their produce in the UK. Consequently, it did not take long for us to accept the challenge and here we are!

Keep it in the family.

We supply only the very best produce. Our saffron (or Persian red gold, as it is sometimes known) is grown in the foothills of Zarand and also in Kerman. The only farmers we work with are our own family and friends from the same small area.

Above all, we believe in giving more back to our farmers to encourage sustainable farming and environmentally friendly cultivation. We asked them if we could handle all the packaging arrangements and they readily agreed.

Saffron has an extremely subtle and fragrant slightly sweet, luxurious taste

The Environment

We take environmental issues very seriously. Therefore, are constantly striving to find new ways of decreasing our carbon footprint. From the word go, we decided to use more biodegradable materials and no plastic, where possible.

One example is that we make our boxes from plain eco-friendly cardboard. They do not have the usual thin plastic coating or prints.

We realised that once a customer takes the glass jar containing the saffron out of the cardboard box, they will simply throw it away. If it cannot be recycled, then at least we wanted it to be completely biodegradable in a landfill site.

Our Goals

Finally, we plan to work tirelessly towards fulfilling our dreams and objectives about Zoetic Ltd. Our main goals are to keep both our customers and our hard-working farmers 100% satisfied and do whatever we can to make the world a more eco-friendly place.