Nutrition: Vitamins on trial

Re:Nutrition: Vitamins on trial by digitalengineer on Thursday July 03, 2014 @02:52AM (#7981815)

I work for the FMCG (Fast moving consumer goods) and can tell you vitamins do one thing very well: help sell stuff. (Vitamin c is easily added to just about anything to make it 'more healthy' looking. I think vitamin c is probably the most abused added vitamine...

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Re:Nutrition: Vitamins on trial by hcarvalhoalves on Thursday July 03, 2014 @03:39PM (#7985211)

> Vitamin c is easily added to just about anything to make it 'more healthy' looking.

No, it's for increasing shelf-life and maintaing the flavor/aspect. Vitamin C is an antioxidant.

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Re:Nutrition: Vitamins on trial by ekianjo on Thursday July 03, 2014 @03:00AM (#7981839)

There's a bunch of Cosmetic companies using Vitamin E in their products too. With slightly more evidence that it does something... if I remember correctly.

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Re:Nutrition: Vitamins on trial by RBerenguel on Thursday July 03, 2014 @05:59AM (#7982245)

Not counting what vitamin E may do to skin (it supposedly helps it), it keeps other oils from going rancid. So, it's a kind of a preservation measure.

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Re:Nutrition: Vitamins on trial by epaladin on Thursday July 03, 2014 @10:01AM (#7983090)

Also the LD50 of vitamin c is so high that it's practically not possible to die from over-consumption of it. Not that anyone really would try, but I find it amusing for some reason.

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Re:Nutrition: Vitamins on trial by eru on Thursday July 03, 2014 @04:59AM (#7982130)

Isn't vitamin C a pretty good preservative agent for food?

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Re:Nutrition: Vitamins on trial by amirmc on Thursday July 03, 2014 @07:20AM (#7982423)

It's an antioxidant. You sometimes see it on labels as ascorbic acid (if the product isn't touting its health credentials).

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