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WOW! Two Hungarian food supplement-producing companies among the top in the world!
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The demand for food supplements on the side of professional athletes and bodybuilders is ever-increasing, and two big Hungarian companies are already on the market.
According to Index, the market is growing not only because there are more bodybuilders or professional athletes but because food supplement products are used even by those, for example, managers, mothers, or accountants, who think that it is important to ingest everything essential for their body and mind. Only a few know that the two big sharks in the industry,
Scitec and BioTech USA, are Hungarian companies.
The latter is a family enterprise while the former is a Hungarian-centred and Hungarian-led company that is owned by a South African group. Both are very successful abroad, even though they have to face incredible competition.
People think that food supplements go hand in hand with bodybuilding because it is true that professional bodybuilding boosted the start of the industry. Today,
it is a market worth 133 billion dollars,
according to an estimate of The New York Times.
Since growing muscles need a lot of protein, and people cannot eat 30 decagrams of chicken meat with rice after each training, food supplements became very important in the second half of the 20th century. The difficulty of their production is that their raw materials are mostly smelly and have an awful taste.
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Therefore, the task of the BioTechUSA factory in Szada and the Scitec factory in Dunakeszi is very simple: they have to produce something delicious and consumable for the body. Furthermore, since many think that food supplements are drugs, producers have to make sure never to add anything labelled as a prohibited performance-enhancing substance by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).