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Nestle’s child nutrition brand NESPRAY launched an upgraded product, ultra-premium student milk powder, using A2 imported milk source along with “ten nutrition power”. Targeting the customer population of students, NESPRAY has performed nutrition customization by adding extra DHA, ARA, taurine, folic acid, and micronutrients such as lutein. This new product is currently available on e-commerce … Read more
The International Probiotics Association (IPA) announces a major expansion of its scope to include the “biotics” categories of prebiotics, postbiotics, and synbiotics within the human, infant, and companion animal segments of food and dietary supplements. The IPA Board of Directors voted to expand the association’s scope to complement its historical focus on probiotics. The expansion … Read more
Chinese researchers identified 163 new herb species during the fourth national census of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) resources, authorities have said. The announcement was made at a two-day academic exchange event hosted by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine (NATCM), which closed in Beijing on … Read more
This year marks the 100th anniversary of Unilever’s first entry into the China market, and the company is poised to grow together with China for another 100 years, said Zeng Xiwen, Unilever’s vice-president for China corporate affairs. Among the first batch of multinationals entering the Chinese market after China’s reform and opening-up in 1980s, the … Read more
Lallemand Health Solutions (Lallemand) has announced the launch of the first organic version of its probiotic yeast Saccharomyces boulardii. Additionally, the organic version of S. boulardii is available in powder form and as a purely organic ingredient in organic dietary supplements. According to relevant research by Lallemand, the product can maintain the stability of the … Read more
The volume of users using WeChat – the social media ‘super app’ that rules the roost in Chinese ecommerce – was up 23% this Chinese New Year compared to the last, with UK and international businesses seeing a steady rise in activity as they become more creative with how they engage Chinese shoppers. Data released by … Read more
In this episode, I speak with Brian Negley, U.S Advisor to EarlyData. Brian takes us on a deep dive of China’s overall e-commerce & cross-border industry reviewing the growth of dietary supplements and the top companies and products / ingredients. The review includes such platforms as Tmall, Tmall Global, Taobao, JD, JD Global, Kaola, VIP, … Read more
ChaXiaoKai launched prebiotic fruit tea, with four flavors of peach oolong tea, lemon black tea, grapefruit jasmine tea, and lychee black tea. According to the brand introduction, the new products add prebiotic oligosaccharides while using erythritol partially instead of sugar. The new products are 100% original leaf extraction of the first tea broth, containing > … Read more
With a continuing increase in domestic consumer demand for imported health, cross-border import e-commerce platforms are working closely with global supply chains to bring imported “new products” to consumers more quickly. On February 10, cross-border e-commerce platform Tmall International signed a strategic cooperation agreement with global nutrition and health products CDMO company Sirio Pharma. Sirio … Read more
Launched by the oral nutrition brand “Ospa” on February 9, two new products, probiotic pills and oral vitamin C effervescent tablets, landed in 13 cities, including Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen, and will be sold on major online platforms. Ospa has made a technical breakthrough to produce the first probiotic pills with a diameter of 8mm … Read more
