While the sports nutrition industry has enjoyed a boom recently, it has not been an easy ride. This image gallery highlights the industry's steps into the mainstream, the scandals it endured, and the regulation battle it finally won. This gallery was adapted from the February 2017 Vitafoods Insights Digital Magazine,
The Evolving Sports Nutrition Market, featuring articles by Dr Adam Carey, chair of the European Specialist Sports Nutrition Alliance; Tom Clifford, sport and exercise nutrition doctoral student, and Prof Emma J. Stevenson, professor of sports and exercise science at Newcastle University; and Dr Mark Russell, reader in performance nutrition and applied exercise physiology at Leeds Trinity University.