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Introduction of supplements:

1, nutritional supplements, also known as dietary supplements, nutritional supplements, nutrients, dietary supplements, etc., is used as an adjunct to the diet to replenish amino acids, trace elements, vitamins, minerals, etc., that the human body needs.

2, nutritional supplements are used to make up for the normal human diet may be insufficient intake, but also the body's essential nutrients for the purpose of the production of certain foods containing specific nutrients.

3, common nutritional supplements are vitamin A pills, multivitamin tablets, vitamin C tablets, vitamin E tablets, etc., supplementary trace elements of calcium, zinc, unsaturated fatty acids fish oil pills, and supplementation of essential amino acids, such as oral solution and injection.

4, nutritional supplements do not form a unified whole with food as nutritional supplements, and most of them are made into pills, tablets, capsules, rinses or oral liquid, etc., and are taken separately with meals at mealtimes. Nutrient supplements are not usually food, nor are they food fortification.

5, nutritional supplements can be composed of amino acids, polyunsaturated fatty acids, minerals and vitamins, or only one or more vitamins, or one or more dietary ingredients, which in addition to amino acids, vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients, but also herbaceous plants or other botanicals, or concentrates, extracts, or combinations of the above ingredients.

6. In 1994, the U.S. Congress enacted the Dietary Supplement Health Education Act, which defines a dietary supplement as a product designed to supplement the diet (rather than tobacco), and which may contain one or more of the following dietary ingredients: vitamins, minerals, herbs (botanicals) or other plants, and amino acids.

7. Dietary ingredients intended to supplement the total daily intake, or concentrates, metabolites, extracts or combinations of the above ingredients. Dietary Supplement" is required on the label, and can be taken orally in the form of pills, capsules, tablets, or liquids, but not as a substitute for ordinary food or as a dietary substitute.

8, nutritional supplements in China has not yet become a legal definition, but for the actual situation of the nutritional supplement industry in China, by the China Health Care Association, the market committee of the Commission's research institutions after a long period of research to form a concept of the industry, and quickly recognized by all parties.