Is food, beverage, and tobacco products manufacturing growing or shrinking?

In the latest annual data (2025), food, beverage, and tobacco products value added is down 1.6% year over year in dollar terms. The full quarterly series since 2005 is charted above and updates with each BEA release.

Which states produce the most food, beverage, and tobacco products?

California leads with $34.7B of food, beverage, and tobacco products GDP in 2024, followed by North Carolina ($24.7B) and Texas ($22.7B), per BEA state GDP data.

Is food, beverage, and tobacco products a durable or nondurable goods industry?

BEA classes food, beverage, and tobacco products manufacturing as nondurable goods. Nondurable goods (food, chemicals, plastics, fuel, paper) are products generally consumed within three years.

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Food, Beverage, and Tobacco Products Manufacturing

Food, Beverage, and Tobacco Products manufacturing produced $355B of value added in 2025. That is 12.2% of all U.S. manufacturing output and 1.2% of GDP, making it the 2nd-largest of the 19 manufacturing subsectors the Bureau of Economic Analysis tracks. Output shrank 1.6% year over year. It is classed as nondurable goods manufacturing; the largest producing state is California ($34.7B in 2024).

Output and growth

Value added: $355B in 2025, 12.2% of all U.S. manufacturing and 1.2% of GDP.
Year-over-year change: -1.6% in dollar terms.
Classification: nondurable goods manufacturing (BEA subsector 311FT).

Top producing states

California: $34.7B (2024)
North Carolina: $24.7B (2024)
Texas: $22.7B (2024)

Frequently asked questions

How big is food, beverage, and tobacco products manufacturing in the U.S.? Food, Beverage, and Tobacco Products manufacturing produced $355B of value added in 2025, or 12.2% of all U.S. manufacturing output and 1.2% of total GDP, per BEA GDP-by-industry data. It ranks 2 of 19 manufacturing subsectors by size.
Is food, beverage, and tobacco products manufacturing growing or shrinking? In the latest annual data (2025), food, beverage, and tobacco products value added is down 1.6% year over year in dollar terms. The full quarterly series since 2005 is charted above and updates with each BEA release.
Which states produce the most food, beverage, and tobacco products? California leads with $34.7B of food, beverage, and tobacco products GDP in 2024, followed by North Carolina ($24.7B) and Texas ($22.7B), per BEA state GDP data.
Is food, beverage, and tobacco products a durable or nondurable goods industry? BEA classes food, beverage, and tobacco products manufacturing as nondurable goods. Nondurable goods (food, chemicals, plastics, fuel, paper) are products generally consumed within three years.

About this data

Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (public domain). National quarterly values are seasonally adjusted annual rates. Corporate-profit industry detail reflects inventory valuation adjustment without capital consumption adjustment, per NIPA table 6.16D conventions.

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.