How to Read the Supplement Facts Box?
Don't be fooled! Here's how to read your supplement labels:
Wondering what is REALLY in your supplements? To help you avoid chemicals and synthetic vitamins, this chart should be printed and saved!
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What is really in your supplements?
| Vitamin A Complex | |||
| Item | Source Given As: | Type of Vitamin | |
| Vitamin A | Wheat Grass Juice, Barley Juice, Alfalfa Juice powder, Carrot Juice Powder, Duniella salina, Wheat germ, Kelp, Bee Pollen, Yellow dock root, blue green algae, Rose Hips. |  |
Natural |
| Vitamin A | Fish Oils | |
Natural |
| Vitamin A | Acetate |  |
Synthetic |
| Vitamin A | Palmitate | |
Synthetic |
| Vitamin B Complex | |||
| Item | Source Given As: | Type of Vitamin | |
| Vitamin B1 | Rice Bran, Alfalfa Juice powder, Wheat Grass Juice Brewer’s Yeast, Torula yeast, Chlorella, Wheat germ, Kelp, Bee Pollen, Flax seed, blue green algae, Rose Hips | |
Natural |
| Vitamin B1 | Thiamine Mononitrate | |
Synthetic from Coal tar |
| Vitamin B1 | Thiamine Hydrochloride | |
Synthetic from Coal Tar |
| Vitamin B2 | Rice Bran, Alfalfa Juice powder, Wheat Grass Juice Brewer’s Yeast, Torula yeast, Chlorella, Wheat germ, Kelp, Bee Pollen, Flax seed, blue green algae, Rose Hips | |
Natural |
| Vitamin B2 | Riboflavin | |
Synthetic |
| Vitamin B6 | Rice Bran, Alfalfa Juice powder, Wheat Grass Juice Brewer’s Yeast, Torula yeast, Chlorella, Wheat germ, Kelp, Bee Pollen, Flax seed, blue green algae, Rose Hips | |
Natural |
| Vitamin B6 | Pyridoxine Hydrochloride | |
Synthetic (usually from coal tar) |
| Vitamin C Complex | |||
| Item | Source Given As: | Type of Vitamin | |
| Vitamin C | Rose Hips, Carrot Juice powder, Chlorella, Kelp, Bee Pollen, Flax seed, Yellow dock root, Dunaliella salina | |
Natural |
| Vitamin C | Ascorbic Acid (This is from fermented corn syrup). Most supplements that say "with rose hips" are misleading, as they have minimal amounts of rose hips mixed with good ol' synthetic Vitamin C. Find out how synthetic ascorbic acid is made |
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Chemically Altered |
| Vitamin C | Calcium Ascorbate | |
Synthetic |
| Vitamin C | Ester C (a combination of ascorbyl palmitate and ascorbic acid) | |
Synthetic |
| Vitamin E Complex | |||
| Item | Source Given As: | Type of Vitamin | |
| Vitamin E | Wheat germ oil, wheat germ, nuts, seeds, and cereal grasses. | |
Natural |
| Vitamin E | Alpha tocopherol, beta tocopherol or mixed tocopherol | |
Crystalline and Synthetic |
| Vitamin E | D-Alpha-Tocopheryl Succinate | |
Synthetic |
| Vitamin E | Di-Alpha-Tocopheryl Acetate | |
Synthetic |
| Vitamin K Complex | |||
| Item | Source Given As: | Type of Vitamin | |
| Vitamin K | Alfalfa Wheat Grass and Other Cereal grasses | |
Natural |
| Vitamin K | Menadione | |
Synthetic (Crystalline costs 60 times more than synthetic) |
| Minerals | |||
| Item | Source Given As: | Type | |
| Coral Calcium | Coral Calcium is the same as Calcium carbonate | |
Not chelated, high lead content |
| Calcium | Calcium carbonate | |
Not chelated, least absorbed |
| Calcium | Calcium Amino Acid Chelate | |
True patented molecular chelate (look for patent number) |
| Calcium Hydroxyapatite | Calcium Hydroxyapatite | |
Not chelated, least absorbed |
| Calcium | Bitartrate | |
Synthetic, not chelated |
| Calcium | Calcium lactate | |
Not chelated |
| Calcium | Calcium gluconate | |
Synthetic, not chelated |
| Copper | Copper Gluconate | |
Synthetic, not chelated |
| Copper | Copper Amino Acid Chelate | |
True patented molecular chelate |
| Iron | Iron fumarate | |
Synthetic, not chelated |
| Iron | Iron gluconate | |
Synthetic, not chelated |
| Iron | Ferris sulfate | |
Synthetic, not chelated |
| Iron | Iron Amino Acid Chelate (Total-Nutrition Program™) | |
True patented molecular chelate |
| Iodine | Potassium Iodine | |
Synthetic, not chelated |
| Iodine | Kelp | |
Natural |
| Magnesium | Magnesium Gluconate | |
Synthetic, not chelated |
| Magnesium | Magnesium Oxide | |
Synthetic, not chelated |
| Potassium | Potassium gluconate | |
Synthetic, not chelated |
| Potassium | Potassium chloride | |
Synthetic, not chelated |
| Trace Minerals | Colloidal minerals or ionic minerals | |
Extracted from oil shale, not chelated, small particles of dirt |
| Complete mineral complex | From living fruits and vegetables (Total-Nutrition Program™) | |
Natural |
NOTE: Mineral aspartates and mineral orotates are artificial. If you have been told that colloidal minerals are the answer, read the Truth About Colloidal Minerals.
NOTE: The synthetics are so much cheaper that commercially they have replaced most crystalline. Only a few crystallines are still used commercially such as B12, alpha tocopherol (partially replaced), and inositol. But crystallines are not natural, not whole food, and are not suitable for human nutrition.
NOTE: Legally, crystalline can be called natural because it was isolated from a natural product, but it is NOT natural as it applies to human nutrition.
