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Mp32pingi25 t1_jaaky06 wrote

You don’t need to take vitamins when you’re sick. That is just a myth started with some of those homeopathic medicines and the “emergenC” stuff. They are just vitamins and your body can only use so much and the extra will just come out in your pee. So if you are deficient in something then vitamins might help. But getting from food is by far the best

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breckenridgeback t1_jaalmpx wrote

And, realistically, most Americans aren't deficient in Vitamin C anyway. It's found in all sorts of foods to add a sour flavor - a pack of your average sour candy is several day's worth of RDI.

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Mp32pingi25 t1_jaam9pp wrote

Wait wait..vitamin C is in sour flavoring!!??? So sour patch kids are saving me from scurvy?!?!

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