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What types of vitamin supplements can you make yourself?

Asked by pallen123 (1519points) October 15th, 2009

I’ve read you can dry orange peels and eat them as a vitamin C supplement. Anyone know other vitamins you can make at home, or any sites or books that explain how?

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nisse's avatar

I think if you eat parsley it contains just about every vitamin except D, and plenty of iron too. Easy to grow aswell.

Thiamine (Vit. B1) 0.1 mg 8%
Riboflavin (Vit. B2) 0.2 mg 13%
Niacin (Vit. B3) 1.3 mg 9%
Pantothenic acid (B5) 0.4 mg 8%
Vitamin B6 0.1 mg 8%
Folate (Vit. B9) 152 μg 38%
Vitamin C 133.0 mg 222%
Vitamin K 1640.0 μg 1562%

% is % of reccomended daily intake from eating 100 grams of raw parsley, see the wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsley

forestGeek's avatar

@nisse – wow, good to know!

I imagine you can make some small snack using only parsley, a few other herbs and/or veggies, and some good tasting filler, to get much of what you need daily.

BhacSsylan's avatar

You can make Vitamin D anywhere! Well, anywhere there’s direct sunlight. Okay, enough of my silliness.

Garebo's avatar

I have lots of rose hips on my land, but I have never tried processing them for personal consumption. I am sure it wouldn’t be hard to dry and ground.
If you have a mortar and pedestal that really helps for pulverizing, my wife picked one up at flea market relatively cheap that I use for lots of things.
Concentrating, or reducing high quality green tea is easy and is a powerful antioxidant that helps you lose weight.
Flax seed, as you probably know can be ground up and is effective especially when enriched with cottage cheese-see Dr. Budwig on Google for that.

Link's avatar

Don’t know about growing stuff at home or making stuff at home, but the Lemonade flavored Vitamin Water (the 10 calorie kind) has a good amount of vitamins, including vitamin C, E, and some Zinc. It’s low on calories so you can drink one everyday and get a good dose of vitamins.

SuppRatings's avatar

Sure, you can ‘make’ alot of your own supplements; but wouldn’t it be much for fun and tasty to cook healthy treats, snacks and dinners that contains aid vitamins/supplements?

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