Facts About Vitamins

SYNTHETIC vitamins and minerals are those substances which have been produced in a laboratory from non-food products to duplicate the vitamins and minerals found in food. Chemical names will be listed as the sources for the vitamins and minerals. Refer to Vitamin Vigilance.

CRYSTALLINE vitamins come from sources in a natural food, but by means of distillation, heat or solvents, it has been isolated into a specific vitamin or amino acid. For example, B12 is Cobalamin concentration or inositol reduced from corn or d'alpha tocopherol acetate.

ORGANIC refers to all vitamin products that contain the element Carbon. ORGANIC supplements do not necessarily contain food since many non-food contain carbon.

FOOD CONCENTRATES are concentrated foods that contain vitamins and minerals plus the accompanying nutrients and unknown factors found in foods. FOOD CONCENTRATES contain no synthetic vitamins or minerals.