Introduction - Special Medical Food Industry

Special medical food, or special diet food, is specially processed and produced and can be used only under guidance of doctor or clinical nutritionist. It is not luxury, instead fuel in snowy weather for those in need. Such food can regulate unbalanced metabolism, reduce possibility of infection or other complications, promote rehabilitation, improve curing effect, cut medical payment and better patients’ life quality. For these reasons, special medical food is of great clinical importance.

Suppose nutrition industry in China is uprising, special medical food might be a an industry in dawn, when it is the darkest but sun will rise soon. This sentence actually can be explained in many aspects. First, special medical food industry is still in small scale and in a primary development stage; second, this industry can develops fast and has limitless potential; third, domestic medical system reform can be advantageous for the industry development, although its development is still limited by the lag of related regulations and laws. We can apply a famous sentence of our great Chairman Mao to describe special medical food industry in China: While the prospects are bright, the road has twists and turns.

In the following blogs, we will release a series of particles to explain special medical food for you. Please stay tuned for the next!