Re: Eating healthy in Chengdu?

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Search for 无糖花生酱 but make sure you don’t get the kind that’s intended for use as a hotpot dip.

You need to go one step further than that and make certain there’s no hydrogenated fats in there. It won’t always be listed on the ingredients, and will sometimes only show up as (for example) Palm Oil. I always chat with any seller before purchasing, and do my best to know fully what I’m buying.

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Ray, are multi-vitamins, minerals, digestive enzymes, and probiotics readily available at the supermarkets in Chengdu?

Yes, but they’re either insanely overpriced, or crap. I now have a couple of trade accounts with sport supplement companies in Beijing, sourcing all my supplements with them directly at much lower cost than retail. I’m also purchasing raw pharmaceutical grade ingredients from a manufacturer so I can tailor my own concoctions. These include Glutamine, BCAA’s, AAKG/OKG, etc.

China does make things like this complicated, but it’s also manufacturing heaven. Essentially if you do the research, anything you want or need is available.