Back-to-School Season: How to Scientifically Add Zinc to Support Children's Growth and Immunity

As the new semester begins, the pace of study and daily life accelerates and children have more frequent exposure to public environments, making immune health a key priority for parents. This places greater demands on children's growth status and daily nutritional support: How can precise nutritional supplementation help put an end to frequent colds, diarrhea, and allergies, improve children's appetite, and boost their immunity and growth?

Why Is Zinc Indispensable During Children's Critical Growth Period?

• Supports immune function

Zinc is an essential trace mineral for maintaining normal immune function in the human body. It participates in the function and signaling regulation of immune cells involved in both innate and adaptive immunity. Multiple studies have confirmed that zinc plays an important role in the normal functioning of the immune system ^[1].

• Supports children's normal growth and development

According to the NIH Office of Dietary Supplements, infants, children, and adolescents all require zinc to support normal growth and development ^[2][3]. As children grow, body cells continuously grow and divide, while DNA and proteins are constantly being synthesized—and zinc participates in important physiological processes such as DNA synthesis, protein synthesis, and cell division. Zinc is therefore an essential nutrient that cannot be overlooked during a child's growth stages ^[4], and it is also an important nutritional ingredient in children's gummies, oral liquids, nutritional powders, tablets, and multi-vitamin-and-mineral formulations.

Innovative "Zinc" Ingredient Solutions for Diverse Children's Nutrition Products

RICHEN offers two innovative branded zinc sources: Riminix™ instant zinc gluconate and Pure-Chel™ zinc glycinate.

Riminix™ Zinc Gluconate | Instant and Uniform, for Better Zinc Application

Riminix™ zinc gluconate dissolves quickly at room temperature, delivering excellent dissolution, dispersion, uniformity, and stability performance, and is highly compatible with a wide range of formats including liquids, powders, tablets, and gummies.

· Excellent solubility: dissolves quickly at room temperature, no clumping when mixed, uniform dispersion and good stability in liquid systems.

· High-standard purity control: strict control over key risk items including chlorate/perchlorate, heavy metals, and microorganisms, delivering high-standard, high-purity zinc salt ingredients.

· Easier to formulate: suitable for mainstream formats including liquids, powders, tablets, and gummies, with strong compatibility.

Riminix™ focuses not only on zinc content but also enforces stricter quality control over key risk items such as chlorate/perchlorate, heavy metals, and microorganisms, to deliver high-standard, high-purity zinc salts.

Pure-Chel™ Zinc Bisglycinate| Stable Chelation, for Easier Zinc Absorption

Pure-Chel™ pioneered a four-step verification method to guarantee 100% pure chelation. Zinc Bisglycinateforms a stable chelate structure from mineral zinc and two molecules of glycine, which helps reduce interference from dietary components such as phytic acid and oxalic acid in mineral utilization, allowing zinc to pass through the digestive tract in a more stable form for better absorption and higher gastrointestinal tolerance—delivering gentle supplementation for premium children's nutrition.

· 100% pure chelation with a verifiable process: RICHEN pioneered the four-step verification method to ensure the purity and stability of the chelation process throughout.

· More efficient absorption: the stable chelate structure helps reduce interference from dietary components such as phytic acid and oxalic acid in zinc absorption, allowing zinc to pass through the digestive tract in a more stable form for better absorption.

· Suitable for premium children's nutrition: compatible with a variety of formats including drops, gummies, powders, and tablets.

Choose Zinc Scientifically to Build Customized Zinc Nutrition Solutions

Choosing the right zinc source that effectively balances content stability, format compatibility, great taste, and easy absorption is a key consideration in the development of children's nutrition supplement products. Richen Nutritionals' customized formulation design service provides you with the "Zinc Plus" nutrition solution.

References

[1] Wessels I, Maywald M, Rink L. Zinc as a Gatekeeper of Immune Function. Nutrients. 2017;9(12):1286.

[2] NIH Office of Dietary Supplements. Zinc: Fact Sheet for Consumers.

[3] NIH Office of Dietary Supplements. Zinc: Fact Sheet for Health Professionals.

[4] Monfared V, Salehian A, Nikniaz Z, et al. The effect of zinc supplementation on anthropometric measurements in healthy children over two years: a systematic review and metaanalysis. BMC Pediatrics. 2023;23:414.