What is the difference between vitamin companies and different vitamins?
That’s a pretty broad question, but here is a brief answer that may help you. First, you cannot compare a synthetic vitamin to an organic whole food vitamin. A synthetic vitamin is fat soluble and you can overdose on it. A whole food vitamin is water soluble and any unused portions of it safely wash out of your system. As a side note, all of the vitamins you see food companies fortifying their food with are cheap synthetics they use for marketing purposes. The differences between companies are harder to discern. First, only 2% (and that includes Herbal Integrity) are manufacturing to GMP standards. That means there is a 98% chance you are buying products with poor quality control. Once you find a GMP company, the next factor to consider is the quality of the ingredients they buy, and the processes they use in manufacturing to preserve the nutrient value. The final aspect to look at is what kind of bottle is being used for the product. We are one of only a handful of companies that use
