Many people take vitamins to fill the gap when they know they're not really eating right and may not be getting all the nutrients their bodies need from their diets. Unfortunately, the majority of vitamin supplements and multivitamins available for purchase in markets and pharmacies are synthetic, not natural. Your body may not be able to use them, and they often contain substances you might not be aware of.
Purpose of Synthesizing
Manufacturers find it prohibitively expensive to produce natural vitamins. Creating a natural vitamin involves growing and cultivating them. Without additives, they might have a much shorter shelf life and might not sell before their expiration date. Synthetic vitamins are manufactured substances that are similar to natural vitamins, derived from chemicals, notably petroleum, or segments of natural vitamins.
What Synthetic Vitamins Are Made Of
Synthetic vitamin C is usually just ascorbic acid. Ascorbic acid is a component of vitamin C, along with tyrosine and bioflavonoids. If you purchase synthetic vitamin C, you're not really getting vitamin C, but ascorbic acid, which is manufactured from corn sugar when used in vitamins. Similarly, manufacturers create synthetic B vitamins from coal tar, or petroleum. Alpha tocopherol is usually marketed as vitamin E, but it makes up only one part of natural vitamin E. Folic acid is similar to folate, but it's not the real deal. Your body can't always process mere portions of natural vitamins or chemical "clones" because it relies on all the properties contained in natural vitamins to completely metabolize them.
Mineral Content
Because minerals don't come from live plant sources, those contained in synthetic multivitamins don't undergo the same manufacturing process as the vitamin components do. However, isolated synthetic vitamins not purchased in multivitamin form, such as one marketed as vitamin A, may contain no trace minerals at all. If they don't, your body must draw upon its own mineral stores in order to process them. Whole foods offer both vitamins and minerals, so this doesn't happen. Synthetic multivitamins sometimes also contain trace minerals in quantities over and above what your body needs, and your body does not require great quantities. Unless you're suffering a deficiency in one of them, they might do you more harm than good.
Read more:
http://www.livestrong.com/article/487304-what-are-synthetic-vitamins-minerals/#ixzz1sG9mSJCC
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