How much do Taiwanese people love eating health foods? 3 big black horses you often see them

 9:31am, 13 September 2025

Taiwanese people love to eat health foods! According to the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Taiwan's nutritional and health food production value has gradually increased since 2015 and has been growing for three years. The Industry Bureau pointed out that the production value of health food has exceeded 10% of the overall food industry, and the estimated production value reached 75 billion yuan last year. The popular health foods in recent years have also broken the traditional impression, green tea, comprehensive granulated powder, buttermilk, etc. are all big black horses.

Convert the concept of "health food" and nourish the healthcare food when I heard about health foods, the most common thing I think of is Lingzhi, Winter Sweet and Summer Grass. However, in recent years, the concept of "health food" has begun to be changed, and the ingredients do not have to be expensive. Lin Yu, a technical officer of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, said, "In the past, people who drank tea definitely did not think it was a health food. In fact, many daily diets had health ingredients." According to the 2015 production value analysis of the Industrial Bureau, although the traditional production value of various types of capsules is still at the top, the second to fifth place are daily ingredients, namely green tea, comprehensive grain powder, buttermilk and cooking oil for health care.

Functional Green Tea Adjust blood lipids to improve stomach and kidney

The Industrial Bureau stated that the average green tea beverage has been popular in recent years by adding some functional materials such as chicory fiber, digestible dextrin, camellia extract, etc. Although not every tea and beverage has been certified as a "Little Green" healthy food, these materials have been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. The main effects of functional green tea are to regulate blood lipids, improve stomach and kidney function, and not easily form body fat.

Yanxiu Tablets: Lowering triglycerides in the blood

Yanxiu Tablets are very popular in recent years because they are rich in dietary fiber and lowering triglycerides in the blood. According to the Industrial Bureau, major domestic food factories have been investing in production and manufacturing, "the domestic grain-type health food market has entered the war era!" However, compared with Yanmai tablets, the "comprehensive grain powder" used for pistachio has a higher yield value, reaching 6.4 billion yuan, which is 2.6 times the production value of Yanmai tablets. Because the ceratops and squids are mainly engaged in "silver hair", they are very suitable for the elderly with poor chewing ability.

Black Heart Oil Effects Health Care and Cooking Oils Rise

Another interesting thing is the health care and cooking oils. The Industrial Bureau said that due to the impact of the black-hearted oil incident in recent years, consumers are becoming more and more concerned about cooking oil. Among them, health oil products with both machinery and health care requirements have the most obvious growth, with canola oil and sunflower oil as the main ones.

Don't eat more vitamins and be careful to develop diseases

Yang Zonghai, director of the Clinical Toxicology Department of Linkou Changgeng Hospital, pointed out that healthy foods are different from health foods. The former is approved by the Ministry of Welfare and obtained the "Little Green" mark as "healthy food", but it is not just a health or health food. As a pure vitamin C, adult men should pay 90 mg a day and women should avoid exceeding the daily limit of 2,000 mg, so as not to cause stomach inappropriateness and kidney stone risks.

If pregnant women have excessive vitamin A, they are harmful to fetal

Jing Jingxing, a pharmacist at the Pharmacy Department of Zhenxing Hospital, pointed out that vitamins are present in natural foods and have a prescription and are prepared under high doses. They will be classified as drugs and must be established by the doctor. If the public buys health or health foods in the shop by themselves, they need to pay attention to the daily intake. Excessive dose of vitamin D will increase the absorption of calculus in the kidney, prompting the calculus of bones, causing hypervascular calculus. If pregnant women have excessive dose of vitamin D, it will cause damage to the fetus.

Excessive injection of vitamin B increases hepatotoxicity risk

​​With high work pressure, staying up late, etc., many people want to replenish the vitamin B group to refresh themselves. However, Yang Zonghai said that excessive intake of vitamin B3 and B6 can increase hepatotoxicity and neurotoxicity risks. It is better to find the reasons for mental distraction, such as the source of pressure, lifestyle or disease symptoms, eat regular food and fruits and vegetables, and also get trace vitamins. Maintaining a natural diet is the long-term plan.

Healthy adults can nourish themselves through balanced diets

Yunhai said that healthy adults do not need to supplement health care or health food through balanced diets, natural foods and a good lifestyle. If you have special needs, before taking health care or health food, you should read the instructions for taking each different product to avoid overdose or incorrect use.