VITAMINS! Can anyone recommend good vitamin manufacturers?

Hi, so obviously we all know Holland and Barrett, but does anyone have any specific recommendations for vitamin manufacturers? I know there's a lot of difference - there are such things as good vitamins and bad vitamins in terms of how they're produced... it affects the absorption of the vitamin etc. What I don't know are alternative vitamin makers... please help!

Heres one for you,
www.codliveroil.co.uk.
swear by them,one aday!!!

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solgar is excellent.

Get the food based ones. The general chemical ones are often not very absorbable. Your body evolved to snatch its elements out of foods, not big doses of artificial or semi artificial chemicals. Rainbow light makes some good 'uns.

If you are talking just standard multi-vitamin types. Most generic brands will do and be just as good as higher priced big named ones. Not until you start getting into herbal exracts and other things is the Company important.

Look for a manufacturer that follows GMP guidelines, as these are the highest standard available, and will ensure manufacturing and quality control procedures have been carefully followed.

Yeh, I know 1. I thik they call it "nature". Just ordinary fruit and veg is a gr8 source of vitamins, so why bother forkin out 2 buy expensive vitamin supplements. Heres a tip- try and vary the colours of the fruit/veg u eat, its much beta 4 u and can lower ur blood pressure and get rid of spots and allsorts!!!!!!!!

Why do you need to consider taking vitamin tablets when a healthy diet will provide all you need. You cannot store up vitamins in your body, all excess will be peed out, so not worth taking them if you each lots of fresh fruit and veg, get your five a day and enjoy the fruit and veg instead of popping pills

The research I've read is that H&B are pretty rubbish but Boots is OK & fairly priced. Solgar are probably the best on the market although more pricey. Nature might have been the best source for vitamins once upon a time but with farming, GM, pesticides, pollution, environmental matters etc etc, the quality of the food on our shelves is not as good as it was - even with organic produce as recent reports have noted. Sadly, we probably all do need supplements.

Nature's Own do an excellent Food State Multivitamin, which I swear by. These tablets are not available in Holland & Barrett, so you may have to look on the Web for your local stockist at natures-own.co.uk.

Ideally, it's best to go to a biofeedback technician in your area who can test a variety of vitamins and minerals on you to see if they will be the most beneficial to your body. Our bodies' needs and acceptance of specific supplements change over time and vary.
Right now I've been enjoying a protein drink that has important "greens" in it called protein greens+ from this company:
http://greensplus.com/index.php?osCsid=d...
It's been a very good source of nutrition.
Another good company for vitamins is:
http://www.progressivelabs.com/
Hope these are helpful!!

lamberts & solgar are quality

Shaklee is the best company I have ever heard of
www.shaklee.net/brady

I buy mine form a supermarket and they r just as good and cheaper than branded ones