Labeling Deceptions

You'll see the word, "Natural," written on everything these days. Did you know that most vitamins on the market claiming to be natural only have to be 10% natural to make this claim? Some firms mix 10% natural vitamin E with 90% synthetic vitamin E and call their product "natural vitamin E" without declaring the synthetic portion. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has yet to stop this misleading labeling.

Many vitamins that are "natural" never break down. They often contain additives, food allergens, sugar, artificial coloring, flavoring, shellac, chlorine, and other potentially hazardous chemicals. The word "organic" is also used commonly; implying something orgaincally grown. Unfortunately the word "orgainic" means anything that contains a carbon atom which could mean a synthetic substance, not just organically-grown produce.

The word "pure" is legal because the product is the pure essence of the chemical molecule. The pharse "vitamin complex" is allowable because products could be from food sources, and contain minute quantites of the co-factors once in the food. The term "from natural sources" can refer natural substances such as corn sugar.

These vitamins or fractionated vitamins which are made by treating natural foods with high powered chemicals, solvents and heat. This process destroys almost all of the co-factors (enzymes, antioxidants, trace elements and other unknow factors) that are needed for your body to use the vitamin. This can cause vitamin deficiencies because it contains only part of the real thing like comparing refinded white flour (crystalline vitamin) to wheat flour (food supplement). You miss the major ingredients.

The motivating factor fo producing crystalline vitamins is to increase the milligram levels for marketing purposes only, not for our good health. Anytime you take a synthetic or crystalline vitamins, you are missing vital nutrition.