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“NOW Foods, which makes and sells supplements itself, bought 25 vitamin C gummy brands off Amazon and paid an accredited lab to test them. They published the re
by emptybits 22d ago
“NOW Foods, which makes and sells supplements itself, bought 25 vitamin C gummy brands off Amazon and paid an accredited lab to test them. They published the results last week. Twelve had almost no detectable vitamin C. Five claimed 1,000mg or more per gummy and contained under 2mg.”
Yikes. And Vitamin C has to be one of the cheapest active ingredients going, so imagine the incentive to skip “real” ingredients. o_O
- esperent 22d agoOn the other hand from my ad hoc reading over the last few years, Now itself seems pretty good, they're relatively cheap and seem to contain what they claim in tests.
- SirFatty 22d agoWell, NOW is doing well enough to have an arena in Hoffman Estates (former Sears Centre). So I guess there's plenty of money to go around.