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3 by Lauranca M. Hursh, M.D.
Consultant, National Dairy Council
VITAMINS: NATURAL
OR SYNTHETIC
Is there a difference
between so-called “natural”
or "organic” vitamins and
synthetic vitamins? The
question is a legitimate one
and it is important, par
ticularly with regard to the
current “back-to-nature”
trends which abound in our
society.
As an item in the Journal
of the American Medical
Association said: “The
labeling of vitamins as
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‘natural’ implies that they
have been extracted from a
substance found in nature.”
Examples given include
vitamins A and D extracted
from codfish liver, vitamin E
from wheat germ oil,
Vitamin 812 from liver,
vitamins B 1 and B 2 from
yeast, and vitamin C from
rose hips.
But because of the cost of
such extracting, most
vitamins sold today (with the
exception of vitamin E)
probably are synthetic
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vitamins.
So what is the difference?
According to Margarita
Nagy, M.S., of the AMA’s
Dept, of Foods and Nutrition,
and author of the Journal
article:
"Synthetic vitamins are
those that have been
manufactured by a phar
maceutical company.
Biochemically, a vitamin
has only one molecular
structure; thus, whether a
vitamin is extracted from a
natural product or syn
thesized by the- manufac
turer, its structure is
identical in either case, and
possesses, consequently, the
same biochemical activity.”
But there’s more to the
story. One would suppose as
a Berkeley, California
pharmacist did, that
vitamins sold as “natural”
had, in fact, come from
natural sources. But when he
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visited two manufacturers of
“natural” vitamins he ob
served that many of the
products so-labeled con
tained "synthetic vitamins
added to the natural base.”
"Rose Hips Vitamin C
Tablets” had been adjusted
from the original 2 percent to
50 percent by adding
chemical ascorbic acid. The
pharmacist, Adolph Kamil,
said he was told that if no
vitamin C were added the
tablet “would have to be as
big as a golf ball.”
Similarly, he found that B
vitamins labeled “natural”
or “organic” turned out to be
“mostly synthetic chemicals
added to yeast and other
natural bases.”
What’s my point? It’s not
to run down vitamins in anv
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form, natural or synthetic.
But we should know what we
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charge of consumer in
formation and quality
control for the pharmacies of
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idiot
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