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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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 B12	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 B12	Streptomycin Fermentation	Crystalline (Not yet synthesized)

Vitamin B12	Cyanocobalamin USP	Synthetic (usually from coal tar)

Folate	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

Folic Acid	Pteroylglutamic Acid	Synthetic

Pantothenic Acid	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

Pantothenic Acid	Calcium Pantothenate	Synthetic

Choline	Soy bean, cereal, grasses, wheat grass, barley, etc.	Natural

Cholin	Choline Bitartrate (or if mentioned not as above, it is synthetic)	Synthetic

Inositol	Soy bean, cereal, grasses, wheat grass, barley, etc.	Natural
Inositol	All that is commercially used is...	Crystalline (not yet synthesized)

Biotin	Liver, 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

Biotin (Vitamin H?)	D-Biotin	Synthetic

Nicotinic Acid	Yeast, Cereal, Grasses, Wheat Grass, Barley, Etc.	Natural

Nicotinic Acid	Niacin	Synthetic

Para-aminobenzoic Acid	Yeast, Cereal, Grasses, Wheat Grass, Barley, Etc.	Natural

Para-aminobenzoic Acid	Anything other than listed as above is...	Synthetic

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	Chemically Altered.

Vitamin C	Calcium Ascorbate	Synthetic

Vitamin C	Ester C	Synthetic, it's a combination of ascorbyl palmitate and ascorbic acid.

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 tochopherol or mixed tocopherol	Crystalline and synthetic

Vitamin E	D-Alpha-Tocohpheryl 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 of Vitamin

Coral Calcium	Coral Calcium is the same as Calcium carbonate	Not chelated you might as well eat dirt or munch on an oyster shell. Coral calcium also has the highest is lead content.

Calcium	Calcium carbonate	Not chelated, this is one of the least absorbed

Calcium	Calcium Amino Acid Chelate	True Patented molecular chelate. Look for patent number on the label!

Calcium Hydroxyapatite	Calcium Hydroxyapatite	Not chelated, this is the least absorbed of all calcium

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. Look for patent number on the label!

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 ™ supplies this mineral and so does.	True Patented molecular chelate. Look for patent number on the label!

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 all 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 actually replaced most crystalline. only a few crystallines are still commercially used. 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.