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Tesco Vitamins

  • 30-09-2014 09:47AM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68 ✭✭


    Tesco Immune Support Vitamin C and Evening Primrose Tablets are 40 cent in Tesco today and also they are 3 for 2 .... well worth stocking up!

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Comments

  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,119 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    Are you sure? The VitaminC is always 40c


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,260 ✭✭✭Rucking_Fetard


    Leave them on the shelf + where are these Vits coming from???


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 533 ✭✭✭rustyzip


    I bought a small thing of Zinc from Llyods pharmacy.
    I checked my old bottle of zinc tablets from Tesco.
    They are the EXACT same, bottle, tablets everything.. Llyods are twice the price!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,389 ✭✭✭✭Saruman


    Leave them on the shelf + where are these Vits coming from???



    I have been using Tesco vitamin C for years.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60,764 ✭✭✭✭unkel


    Leave them on the shelf + where are these Vits coming from???

    Interesting article. Claiming that very high doses of anti-oxidants (as advocated by Linus Pauling) are bad for ya and cause cancer. Last sentence:

    "In 1994, Linus Pauling died of prostate cancer"

    They forget to state that he was nearly 94 years old :p

    "Make no mistake. The days of the internal combustion engine are definitely numbered" - Quentin Willson, 1997



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 318 ✭✭lainycool


    Best to get your vitamins out of health food stores! I would be concerned about the fillers and binders that are going into them tablets!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 318 ✭✭lainycool


    Just looked at the ingredients there is 5 different types of sugar in these tablets, Better off eating an orange.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,260 ✭✭✭Rucking_Fetard


    Saruman wrote: »
    I have been using Tesco vitamin C for years.
    There's a few there from a google, list the ingredients in yours.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,260 ✭✭✭Rucking_Fetard


    unkel wrote: »
    Interesting article. Claiming that very high doses of anti-oxidants (as advocated by Linus Pauling) are bad for ya and cause cancer. Last sentence:

    "In 1994, Linus Pauling died of prostate cancer"

    They forget to state that he was nearly 94 years old :p
    You left out the wife dying of cancer as well. 77.

    Age is irrelevant with regard to that article anyway.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60,764 ✭✭✭✭unkel


    lainycool wrote: »
    Just looked at the ingredients there is 5 different types of sugar in these tablets

    No there isn't.

    Ingredients: Bulking Agent (Sorbitol),Sodium Ascorbate ,Ascorbic Acid ,Maltodextrin ,Magnesium Stearate ,Sweeteners (Aspartame*, Acesulfame K) ,Flavouring ,Acacia Gum

    Pretty much the same as sugar free chewing gum (with added vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid)) ;)

    There is zero calories in a whole box of these...

    "Make no mistake. The days of the internal combustion engine are definitely numbered" - Quentin Willson, 1997



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60,764 ✭✭✭✭unkel


    Age is irrelevant with regard to that article anyway.

    Indeed. That Pauling died of cancer is irrelevant to that article too :)

    Mentioning that (never mind the implied link to him taking high doses of anti-oxidants) clearly shows it's not an objective, scientific article. I'd say the author probably has some kinda agenda on this subject...

    Interesting read all the same.

    "Make no mistake. The days of the internal combustion engine are definitely numbered" - Quentin Willson, 1997



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,260 ✭✭✭Rucking_Fetard


    unkel wrote: »
    Indeed. That Pauling died of cancer is irrelevant to that article.

    He spent half his life saying that if you took your vits it would ward of disease and then dies of cancer.

    It is relevant.

    Lots of links to back stuff up. Dont know where your getting the agenda stuff from.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60,764 ✭✭✭✭unkel


    He spent half his life saying that if you took your vits it would ward of disease and then dies of cancer.

    It is relevant.

    No it is not ;)

    The fact that one man died of cancer after taking high doses of vitamins for a long time means nothing in terms of scientific research

    That he lived to be 93 means nothing either :)

    "Make no mistake. The days of the internal combustion engine are definitely numbered" - Quentin Willson, 1997



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,638 ✭✭✭moodrater


    Faux science and ramblings aside ... Evening primrose oil scanning at normal price in tesco Roscommon. I'm guessing the 40c is a bug with the 3 for 2 that you were charged the vitamin c price.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 318 ✭✭lainycool


    unkel wrote: »
    No there isn't.

    Ingredients: Bulking Agent (Sorbitol),Sodium Ascorbate ,Ascorbic Acid ,Maltodextrin ,Magnesium Stearate ,Sweeteners (Aspartame*, Acesulfame K) ,Flavouring ,Acacia Gum

    Pretty much the same as sugar free chewing gum (with added vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid)) ;)

    Sorbitol and maltodextrin are forms of sugar, certainly not sugar free!
    Aspartame and acesulfame artificial sweeteners which imo are worse than sugar!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,260 ✭✭✭Rucking_Fetard


    unkel wrote: »
    No there isn't.

    Ingredients: Bulking Agent (Sorbitol),Sodium Ascorbate ,Ascorbic Acid ,Maltodextrin ,Magnesium Stearate ,Sweeteners (Aspartame*, Acesulfame K) ,Flavouring ,Acacia Gum

    Pretty much the same as sugar free chewing gum (with added vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid)) ;)

    There is zero calories in a whole box of these...
    Artificial sweeteners were recently shown to interfere with Gut Microbiome leading to weight gain, Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes.

    Here.

    Knew well it was full of poison.

    Is Ascorbic Acid a Vitamin?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60,764 ✭✭✭✭unkel


    Is Ascorbic Acid a Vitamin?

    Eh yeah. Ascorbic acid IS Vitamin C
    Artificial sweeteners were recently shown to interfere with Gut Microbiome leading to weight gain, Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes.

    Knew well it was full of poison.

    Sigh. Taking a couple of those pills every day is probably the equivalent of taking a can of diet coke a week or something like that. Do you honestly believe that will harm you in any way?

    And no, I wouldn't recommend anyone to eat several kg of artificial sweeteners per day :p

    "Make no mistake. The days of the internal combustion engine are definitely numbered" - Quentin Willson, 1997



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 98 ✭✭Chocolate Lions


    Is Ascorbic Acid a Vitamin?

    lol.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,260 ✭✭✭Rucking_Fetard


    lol.
    :pac:, whats funny?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 879 ✭✭✭ei9go


    Even with 3 for 2 most of these products are way cheaper in Aldi


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,260 ✭✭✭Rucking_Fetard


    unkel wrote: »
    Eh yeah. Ascorbic acid IS Vitamin C



    Sigh. Taking a couple of those pills every day is probably the equivalent of taking a can of diet coke a week or something like that. Do you honestly believe that will harm you in any way?

    And no, I wouldn't recommend anyone to eat several kg of artificial sweeteners per day :p
    lol.
    Ascorbic Acid Is Not Vitamin C


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,759 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    Maybe, just maybe...

    However, the Supplements link (and the mad prices thereon....) on that site makes me very dubious of 'thedoctorwithin'. And that's without clicking on any other links.

    Not your ornery onager



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,301 CMod ✭✭✭✭Davy


    Thread about Vitamins in Health Sciences for anyone who wants to discuss these issues.


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