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Something You Know About Natural Vitamins
How Natural Are Natural Vitamins?
Many times the so called natural vitamins are not as
natural as they would appear to be.
When you see the word standardized as in rose hips concentrate,
it means that the vitamin C level has been brought up to
this level by the addition of ascorbic acid which is a synthetic vitamin.
This is legal since the FDA does not require a company to
state the source of vitamin C on the label or the amount of
rose hips powder the rose hips concentrate contains.
It seems the FDA is only concerned with the label stating that the
potency of the natural or synthetic vitamin is correct, not the source the natural or synthetic vitamin comes from.
This also allows the natural food vitamin distributors an
extremely wide leeway in their production of vitamin nutrients
and the subsequent price on the vitamin bottle.
To be noted: many times it is unknown how much rose
hip powder (or any other substance for that matter) there is
contained in a particular natural vitamin product, since this information is not required by the FDA.Therefore, natural vitamin manufacturers do not have to put in more than a small amount of a natural vitamin substance to claim the labeling as being a natural vitamin
When purchasing so called natural vitamins, you as
consumer should be aware of this practice of using synthetic
vitamins along with natural ingredients and then being
sold as an all natural vitamin product.