The new 'legal' status of nutritional gummies-'gel candy'

On February 20, 2021, the State Administration of Market Supervision issued a related announcement on the "Formulation and Technical Requirements for Health Food Recorded Products (2021 Edition)" (hereinafter referred to as "technical requirements"). Among them, gel candy in the form of food was included Formulations of health food filing products. This also means that under the filing system, nutritional gummies finally have a "legal" status in the field of health food-"gel candy".

7 types

According to the representatives of enterprises involved in the formulation of the technical requirements, Xianle Health introduced that the newly released technical requirements include multiple types of jelly candy, including vegetable gum, animal gum, Starch, mixed gum, sandwich, and package. There are 7 types of coating, coating and polishing type. Xianle Health can formulate corresponding technical indicators (such as loss on drying) according to the properties of different types to match the corresponding production process.

Sugar requirements

Regarding the sugar content, the technical requirements refer to the definition of "sugar-free" in the "Classification of Candy" (GB/T 23823), and the index of sugar-free gel candy "monosaccharides and disaccharides ≤0.5g/100g" has been formulated. Due to the lack of clear legal definitions for low-sugar gummy candy, the current technical requirements for filing gummy candy have not been included in low-sugar gummy candy.

Only dimensional mineral raw materials are suitable for the record of jelly candy

It is worth noting that after the formal implementation of the jelly candy filing system, except that currently only the vitamins and minerals that have been included in the health food raw material catalog can be used in the form of jelly candy, the five health food raw materials including fish oil released at the same time cannot be used temporarily Filed in jelly candy.

Excipients description

In addition, the 2021 version of the excipients catalog has added a note on the application of excipients in jelly candy, which excludes the following types of excipients:

(1) Use excipients whose standards are only drug standards (except for purified water);

(2) It is included in GB 2760, but its scope of application does not include the auxiliary materials of jelly candies;

(3) Maltodextrin and isomalt not included in GB 2760.

In addition, there are 26 excipients in the excipients catalog in GB2760. When they are applied to the filing of jelly candy, according to the strict principle, the lower limit of the two is used as the Standard. In this regard, Xianle Health explained that this is a decision made by the review center after fully considering the application requirements of food.

Return to the "food" essence of health food

For vitamins and mineral raw materials that can be used in the form of jelly candy, the current process technology needs to be continuously improved to meet the needs of the market. Dimensional mineral raw materials have been used as basic nutrients for the human body for a certain period of time, but for the emotional soothing, immune health, and beauty products that are currently in great demand in the market, due to the instability of dimensional mineral raw materials, the final nutritional content of the product is checked. It puts forward higher requirements for product formulation design and process control.

With the implementation of the filing system, consumers will undoubtedly fall in love with nutritional supplements. However, to ensure that the nutrients are actually stabilized in the candy, it is necessary to combine the research and exploration of colloids, formulas and processes. As a world-renowned CDMO company in the field of nutrition and health for more than 20 years, an independent R&D team with 15 years of experience in the research and development of nutritional gums can help customers through formulas and processes, sensory research, standards and analysis methods, stability testing, etc. Complete the scientific method from the concept to the realization of the market, focusing on research and storage, combining different types, evaluation and accumulation of a large amount of formula data, and hope that when the market needs it, it can be quickly converted and provided.

Perhaps the future of the health care product industry is to return to where it started, from the food point of view, to make truly good products.