Nature Made Vitamin C 1000mg

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 3.1 x 3.1 x 5.8 inches ; 15.8 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 15.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00008I8NJ
• UPC: 031604017804
• Item model number: 1780
  

By : Nature Made
List Price : $29.99
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Product Description

Package Quantity: 1|Size: 300
Manufacturer’s Description
This Nature Made product provides vitamin C, a versatile and essential vitamin critical for the proper functioning of our immune system. In addition, vitamin C helps manufacture certain nerve-transmitting substances and hormones while helping absorb and utilize other nutrients, such as vitamin E and iron. Vitamin C also makes collagen, which holds connective tissues together in skin, bone, teeth, and other parts of the body.
Vitamin C is an important and powerful antioxidant that works in the aqueous (water) environments of the body, such as the lungs and lens of the eye. Its primary antioxidant partners are vitamin E and the carotenes (such as beta-carotene), but it also works with the antioxidant enzymes. Vitamin C regenerates oxidized vitamin E and restores the antioxidant potential of vitamin E in the body.
Vitamin C is recommended as part of a daily regimen for women's and men's health, longevity, heart strength, and immunity.

• No artificial colors
• No artificial flavors
• No preservatives
• No chemical solvents, yeast or gluten. Recommended By Pharmacists.
• USP Standards plus Nature Made's Pure Ingredients guarantee optimum quality. Guaranteed purity, potency and dissolution.

USP-Verified Dietary Supplement. Recommended by pharmacists. Antioxidant - Helps boost the immune system. Vitamin C helps neutralize free radicals and helps iron get absorbed in the body. UPS has tested and verified ingredients, potency and manufacturing process. USP sets official standards for dietary supplements. No artificial colors. No artificial flavors. No preservatives. No chemical solvents, yeast or gluten. (These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease).

 

Nature Made Vitamin C 1000mg

 

Product Features

• Bottle of 300 vitamin C tablets for immune system support, each tablet containing 1,000 milligrams of Vitamin C
• Helps your body produce collagen, essential in holding connective tissues together
• Critical for proper function of immune system contains 1667 percent RDA of vitamin C per tablet serving
• Powerful antioxidant that works in water-based environments of the body

Customer Reviews

It's vitamin C, 1000 mg, just as advertised. The pill is a bit large due to the amount contained and may be hard to swallow whole, but you can crush, chew or split it without damaging the vitamin contained.
Now, since vitamin C is an acid, it may cause heartburn when taking this much at one time. That's not particular to this brand.
I also tried the Spring Valley natural C 1000mg, and it's so concentrated that it leaves a burn on your tongue or in your stomach (depending if you chew or swallow it), for hours or even days. Not this one - it does taste sour, but leaves no burns. Yay.
Other than that, the container has an easy-open lid which snaps when closed. Nice touch.
About the country of origin - this is vitamin C, also known as ascorbic acid. It's not meat or other perishable and doesn't require a lot of processing. I believe even Chinese farmers would have a pretty good chance of getting this one right...

Vitamin C is so important for health that the vast majority of animals manufacture it daily in their bodies. This is why animals can live outdoors even in the winter without getting colds or most other infectious illnesses. Being healthy is important to animals because if an animal gets sick it usually becomes eaten by a healthy animal. Only a few animals -- principally humanes, monkeys, and apes -- cannot manufacture vitamin C. The inability to manufacture vitamin C confines monkeys and apes to live in or near the tropics, where the weather is warm and edible fruits and vegetation is very rich in vitamin C and thus can supply their need for this essential nutrient. Outside the tropics they would get sick and die or be killed, so most monkeys and apes live only in or near the tropics unlike most other animal species. When monkeys and apes are removed from the tropics to live in zoos or as pets, they routinely are fed a diet very rich in vitamin C in order to keep them healthy.
Humans also originated in the tropics and cannot manufacture vitamin C but -- unlike monkeys and apes -- most humans eventually migrated away from the vitamin C rich tropics and spread all over the world to places in which the food supply contains much less vitamin C than is needed to maintain our health. Thus, unlike other animals, we humans routinely get sick with colds and other illnesses which adequate vitamin C would protect us against. Only the invention and use of clothing, shelter, and weapons makes it possible for humans to survive the illnesses caused by inadequate vitamin C which we routinely get. Humans are the only animals which routinely get sick and yet generally survive our illnesses. But why should we live with periodic bouts of illness? Why not protect ourselves by taking supplemental vitamin C, such as this product? This is the argument presented by Dr. Linus Pauling in his book Vitamin C, the Common Cold, and the Flu. Linus Pauling was the greatest chemist of the 20th century and is the only person ever to have been awarded two unshared Nobel Prizes. If you follow Pauling's advice and take adequate supplemental vitamin C daily, you probably will become healthier in many ways, and may never have another cold or the flu.