American. Some of us turn to nutrition and supplementation because ourselves families are ill, and we cannot afford to take the financial burden -- a financial burden made heavier so more can be looted from us.
Even these scraps are poisoned by people trying to scrape more profit at the cost of others.
I have no words to describe how soul wrenching everything is.
There are many layers to consumer supplement confusion - seeing marks like NSF Certified for Sport, USP Verified or even eGMP on a bottle are a good start, but there's also the risk of buying counterfeit products on Amazon/eBay, storage (hot warehouses, shipping during summer months, etc.)
“NOW Foods, which makes and sells supplements itself, bought 25 vitamin C gummy brands off Amazon and paid an accredited lab to test them. They published the results last week. Twelve had almost no detectable vitamin C. Five claimed 1,000mg or more per gummy and contained under 2mg.”
Yikes. And Vitamin C has to be one of the cheapest active ingredients going, so imagine the incentive to skip “real” ingredients. o_O
The supplement game used to be difficult to get into. Making tablets and capsules at scale required something akin to pharmaceutical grade production processes. This created steep barriers to entry. Making gummies, on the other hand, requires a manufacturing process akin to making Twizzlers.
But then later it says that it's much harder to make gummies consistently (which would be my intuition). So there's actually no barrier to entry because you can white-label supplements easily, not because gummies exist.
Given that and that the bottom of the article suddenly transitions into first person recommendations about buying supplements, I'm guessing it's all AI generated.
Don't buy blends or gummies - they pose a higher risk.
Also, don't buy from most random low-volume brands, although there are some good exceptions, e.g. ProHealth.
Real vitamin C capsules containing ascorbic acid turn from white to brown with age over a few months of a bottle being open. For this reason, never buy a very large bottle of it. Also, the taste of vitamin C is very characteristic. If it has turned brown, it should be discarded due to oxidative damage.
Real vitamin C capsules turn from green (usually, occasionally yellow or orange) to brown over a few days if not refrigerated. Also the taste is very characteristic: apple-flavored, orange-flavored, lemon-flavored, etc.
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[ 0.23 ms ] story [ 3.0 ms ] threadEven these scraps are poisoned by people trying to scrape more profit at the cost of others.
I have no words to describe how soul wrenching everything is.
And don't get me started on "proprietary blends"!
Yikes. And Vitamin C has to be one of the cheapest active ingredients going, so imagine the incentive to skip “real” ingredients. o_O
Given that and that the bottom of the article suddenly transitions into first person recommendations about buying supplements, I'm guessing it's all AI generated.
https://one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5847893:nx-s1-mx-5847893-1
Also, don't buy from most random low-volume brands, although there are some good exceptions, e.g. ProHealth.
Real vitamin C capsules containing ascorbic acid turn from white to brown with age over a few months of a bottle being open. For this reason, never buy a very large bottle of it. Also, the taste of vitamin C is very characteristic. If it has turned brown, it should be discarded due to oxidative damage.