DID YOU KNOW?

THERE ARE ONLY 7 COMPANIES THAT MANUFACTURE VITAMINS IN THE UNITED STATES -

Unknown to most consumers world wide, there are NO brand name vitamin companies that actually manufacture their own vitamin material. They may create the formulas & make tablets, but they don’t create the vitamin material. It’s manufactured by 14 companies worldwide - 7 of them are located in the United States.

These 7 Companies Are:

1. Pfizer Chemicals Division.
2. Henkel Corporation-Fine Chemicals Division.
3. Takeda USA Takeda Chemical Industries, Ltd.
4. Roche Chemical Division, Hoffman LaRoche.
5. Archer Daniels Midland Corporation.
6. Chemicals Division BASF Wyandotte Corp.
7. Eastman Chemical Company.

100% of the vitamins made by these companies are synthetic or identical to synthetic. They are all made to an internationally accepted standard referred to as USP-grade (United States Pharmacopoeia) of FCC (Food Chemical Codex) vitamin material, in other words, free-form vitamin molecules without their natural food attachments. Among these are vitamins derived from so-called natural sources, and even these are stripped of their natural protein bonds and other food attachments, including enzymes. They frequently contain detectable amounts of petroleum-based solvents such as Hexane a component of gasoline. Almost all vitamins on the market today, whether labeled natural source or natural base, have been so processed as to leave them in a totally unnatural free form, not in the natural form in which nutrients are delivered in food. Almost without exception, all vitamins utilized in the manufacturing of supplements are made from what are called hydrocarbonaceous intermediates. They can technically be called "natural," since they can be said to be derived from "natural sources." But their isolated state is not the same as their "natural form" as in food.

There are several classes of vitamin and mineral supplements. Your choices are:

Man-Made vitamins, referred to as USP, are specific molecules synthesized from hydrocarbonaceous inter-mediates (organic chemicals). Worldwide, each USP vitamin or mineral is identical- these are the vitamins used by vitamin supplement companies worldwide. Natural Source vitamins are USP vitamins made from a chemical, derived from something natural. Whole Food Concentrates are USP vitamins/minerals blended with denatured food constituents. Chelated vitamins are USP vitamin molecules chemically reacted with denatured protein, such as animal gelatin or denatured carbohydrate (such as maltodextrin- MSG). These are mistakenly referred to as grown or food grown vitamins.

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(Check out- www.RealFoodNutrients for unique, food-based supplements called “FoodForm”).

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