Ali Health has identified four key health products purchase trends, as well as the best-selling products, witnessed across the Chinese New Year period.
Recent changes in the Chinese market beg the question of whether network marketing companies selling dietary supplements can see an entry there as a panacea for weakness elsewhere.
The nutrition discipline in South East Asia started relatively late, but one Malaysian expert has been active from the outset, clocking up almost 50 years of research experience and invaluable insights.
Rising costs, unexpected operational challenges and the coronavirus impact has led to Blackmores halving its profits forecast and scrapping its dividend.
This round up provides a glimpse on how direct-selling firms in China are adopting new retail models, how H&H plans to expand its kids nutrition portfolio, the impact of the Covid-19 on businesses, and GNC’s blue-hat products.
A double-blind, randomised clinical trial has shown that the supplementation of probiotics with the laxative magnesium oxide is effective in managing constipation in young children.
NutraIngredients-Asia has signed an MoU with India’s Biovalley Incubation Council to stage the first Nutrify India Summit in June to help drive growth and innovation in the country's thriving nutra sector.
Supplement manufacturers and suppliers in China sought return to normalcy as they resume operations as the extended Chinese New Year holiday – lengthened by the novel coronavirus outbreak – comes to an end.
The popularity of ruby chocolate is skyrocketing amongst local and international confectionery and bakery companies alike in Japan, with a further boom expected ahead of Valentine’s Day .
Plant-based products have recently come under fire for potential negative health and environmental effects, but much of this has so far gone more or less unnoticed and/or unmentioned by its proponents, it has been claimed.
The recent coronavirus outbreak originating from animals in China has seen food and beverage authorities and industries worldwide taking steps to prevent spreading or ‘importing’ the virus into their countries – some more aggressively than others.
Cinnamon supplement does not have any discernible effect in reducing inflammation factors in people with type 2 diabetes, according to researchers in Iran.
Australian freeze-dried supplement company Vmores is planning to launch its beauty, women’s and gut health products in China from March, before entering other markets across Asia.
A number of Chinese health food firms have seen an increase in demand for products related to immunity boosting and respiratory health amid the Wuhan virus outbreak.
