Nutrition 21, Inc. is a nutritional bioscience company and the marketer of Chromax chromium picolinate products and Iceland Health omega-3 fish oil-based supplements with health benefits substantiated by clinical research. The Company also creates and develops nutritional supplement ingredients and formulations for sale and licensing to marketers of nutritional supplement products to be used in their finished products. Its products are sold and distributed through two operating segments: Ingredients and Branded Products. It sometimes refers to its Branded Products segment as its Consumer Health segment. The Ingredients segment markets and sells to other marketers and distributors of various nutritional supplement products in both the human and animal nutrition markets. The Consumer Health segment develops, markets and sells finished nutritional supplement products directly to consumers and through mass retail channels.