Employee Share-Based Compensation (Details 1)	12 Months Ended	22 Months Ended	56 Months Ended
Dec. 28, 2013	Apr. 19, 2010	Jan. 02, 2015
Employee Share-based Compensation Details 1
Volatility	75.00%	402.00%	77.00%
Average Daily Trading Volume		11,455cdxc_AverageDailyTradingVolume	155,111cdxc_AverageDailyTradingVolume

Weighted average expected volatility of stock price.

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 820

-SubTopic 10

-Section 50

-Paragraph 2

-Subparagraph (e)

-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=36462937&loc=d3e19207-110258

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