Analysis on the Filing Status of Health Foods (Dietary Supplements) in the First Half of 2026 in China

In order to help enterprises better understand the filing status of health food (dietary supplements) in China, CIRS has gathered statistics on health foods approved in 2026 (as of June 30) and analyzed them from multiple perspectives.

1. The Filing Status of Health Food in China

As of June 30, 2026, according to the information released by the Special Food Information Query Platform of the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR), 1548 health foods obtained filing certificates, of which 1535 are domestic health foods and 13 are imported health foods (detailed information is shown in Table 1).

Table 1. Filing Information of Imported Health Food

2. The Filing Status of Health Food in Different Regions

The filing status of domestic health foods varies significantly across different regions in China, including provinces, directly governed municipalities, and autonomous regions. Shandong province obtained a total of 551 health food filing certificates, securing the top spot in terms of the number of filings. Anhui province and Guangdong province secured the second and third positions with 211 and 138 certificates, respectively.

Note: Health food products with less than three products are classified as “Others”

3. The Filing Status of Health Food in Different Enterprises

390 domestic health food enterprises have obtained the filing certificates. Shandong KeJu Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. has the largest number of approvals with a total of 43 filed products, followed by Shandong Yanzhuque Biotechnology Co., Ltd. and Weihai Ziguang Youjian Technology Co., Ltd., with 35 and 33, respectively.

4. The Filing Status of Health Food in Different Dosage Forms

At present, the permitted dosage forms for filing include tablets, capsules (hard/soft), oral liquids, granules, powders, gelatin candy (gummies). Also, when filing products such as panacis quinquefolii radix, ginseng radix et rhizome and ganoderma, mixture, paste and tea (bagged tea) dosage forms can be used.

In the first half of 2026, the main dosage form for domestic health food filing is capsules with 543, accounting for 35.4% of the total. There are 401 filings for tablet products – 254 swallow tablets and 125 chewable tablets. In addition, the number of oral liquids, powder, granule, gelatin candy, tea, paste and mixture products are 264, 215, 79, 23, 6, 3 and 1 respectively. The tea products include 3 bagged tea products.

5. The Filing Status of Health Food in Different Functional Components

Among the filed domestic health foods in the first half of 2026, there are 715 nutrition supplements, accounting for 46.6% of the total. The rest are 820 functional health foods with such as broken ganoderma lucidum spore powder as raw material, accounting for 53.4% of the total.

Among the nutrition supplements, products with the function of supplementing single nutrient are greater in quantity (302 products filed), followed by products supplementing multi-vitamins & minerals (273 products filed) and two nutrients (140 products filed).

Among nutrition supplements, the three major products are selenium supplements, calcium & vitamin D supplements, and multi-vitamins & minerals supplements, which are 70, 49, and 190 respectively.

Note: Health food products with less than five products are classified as “Others”

There are 294 filed products with coenzyme Q10 as raw materials have been added. Among the rest functional health foods, products with broken ganoderma lucidum spore powder and protein (soy protein isolate and/or whey protein) rank second and third place with 117 and 112 respectively.

CIRS Comments

In recent years, raw materials and dosage forms for health food filing products have gradually diversified. Among domestic health foods, the number of functional health products using raw materials such as ginseng radix et rhizoma, panacis quinquefolii radix and ganoderma has increased significantly, also introducing new dosage forms like paste, tea and mixture products. Besides, powder products and oral liquid products using coenzyme Q10 as the raw material, and oral liquid products using melatonin as the raw material obtained their first batch of filing certificate in the first half of 2026. For the raw materials for health food filing, SAMR released the Catalog of Health Food Ingredients: Lycopene (Draft) for public comment. The ingredient directory of "lycopene" released includes two claimed functions, function "supply lycopene" falls under the category of nutrition supplements, it is expected that both domestically produced and imported products will be eligible to apply for filing.

The variety of raw materials and dosage forms can better meet the needs of different groups of people as well as the research and production requirements of enterprises. It is believed that, driven by policy standardization and market demand, filing products will become more scientific and diversified. 

Note:

I. The data in this article is from the Special Food Information Query Platform.

II. There may be some omissions in the data of the Special Food Information Query Platform, thus the data in this article is for reference only, and please refer to the information published by the government.

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