Table 1 Distribution of sales of dietary...

Table 1

Distribution of sales of dietary supplements between pre-COVID-19 and the COVID-19 period

	Pre-COVID-19		COVID-19 period		Difference
	Mean	Std. dev	Mean	Std. dev
Nutritional supplements	1567.05	3017.70	1734.44	2937.99	167.39^***
Complete nutritional products	169.86	411.09	184.70	464.01	14.83^***
Tonics	16.15	51.82	17.59	53.69	1.44^***
Multi	226.21	459.80	274.51	520.36	48.30^***
Vitamin B complex with Vitamin C	9.97	20.87	11.41	22.81	1.44^***
Children's chewable	34.40	90.07	48.63	125.67	14.23^***
Remaining vitamins	218.57	363.96	299.46	476.07	80.90^***
Mineral supplements	91.52	158.55	104.40	171.89	12.88^***
Protein supplements	223.90	554.53	253.52	587.39	29.62^***
Observations	2,765,740		1,949,620

	Pre-COVID-19		COVID-19 period		Difference
	Mean	Std. dev	Mean	Std. dev
Nutritional supplements	1567.05	3017.70	1734.44	2937.99	167.39^***
Complete nutritional products	169.86	411.09	184.70	464.01	14.83^***
Tonics	16.15	51.82	17.59	53.69	1.44^***
Multi	226.21	459.80	274.51	520.36	48.30^***
Vitamin B complex with Vitamin C	9.97	20.87	11.41	22.81	1.44^***
Children's chewable	34.40	90.07	48.63	125.67	14.23^***
Remaining vitamins	218.57	363.96	299.46	476.07	80.90^***
Mineral supplements	91.52	158.55	104.40	171.89	12.88^***
Protein supplements	223.90	554.53	253.52	587.39	29.62^***
Observations	2,765,740		1,949,620

Note(s): The last column tests mean differences of outcome variables between the pre-COVID-19 and the COVID-19 period. ***, **, and * denote statistical significance at the 0.01, 0.05, and 0.1 level, respectively

Source(s): Authors’ own work

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