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Question by subconcious790: Health Food store vitamins VS Regular Store Vitamins?
I was wondering if there is a difference between buying vitamins at a health food store, you know all the organic foods and healthy choices and what not, then buying vitamins at a regular store like Walmart or Publix? I know that there are different brands at these places but does that mean those brands are more healthy or better vitamins at the health food store than the brands at regular stores?

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Answer by The mom
What counts most in the choice of vitamin is how well it will dissolve and be absorbed by the small intestine. Vitamins are basically chemicals, and it just doesn’t matter to your body if they came from a health food store tablet or the grocery store tablet. Vitamin tablets must all contain what they claim to contain, in the amounts the label states. It doesn’t matter in tablet form whether the vitamins were put together in the lab or extracted from food sources, in the tablet form they are all the same chemical. Your body would prefer to get them from the food source directly, and they absorb best that way. In tablet form, your chances are better if you get a chewable form than one enteric coated tablet. Those coatings don’t always come off well enough to allow absorption in time. And most of the tablet actually goes through the system, by the way. Vitamin and mineral supplements work best if taken every day, for that reason. Unless you have a particular medical problem, or your diet is that badly restricted, a generic children’s chewable vitamin from the grocery store is just fine to meet your needs. You don’t need a fancy expensive vitamin from anywhere, and you also don’t need one that contains more than 100% of your RDA of anything. Buy the least expensive chewable version you can find, and be assured that it will work just fine. And just as well as the more expensive ones.

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