Data bank: China’s most imported vitamins, calcium, probiotics, Q10, glucosamine revealed
Australia’s Blackmores, Swisse, and GNC from the US were China’s most imported health foods brands across a range of top-selling product categories, said a report published in July.
The report from the China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Medicines and Health Products (CCCMPHIE) analysed customs figures on the key dietary supplements imported and exported out of China last year.
The value of health products that China had imported last year was up 12.8% to US$3.4bn, while export value went up 12.7% to US$1.88bn, the commerce association announced earlier this year.
Notably, China’s consumption of health foods has been increasingly dominated by consumers from the younger age group.