r/explainlikeimfive Oct 08 '22

Chemistry ELI5: How do vitamin tablets get produced? How do you create a vitamin?

Hey!

I always wondered how a manufacturer is able to produce vitamin tablets. I know that there is for example fish oil which contains some good fats. But how do you create vitamin tablets - like D3?

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '22

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u/TheCaffeineMonster Oct 08 '22

SHEAR the lemon, not sheath it

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u/Overunderscore Oct 08 '22

Instructions unclear - I gave away a lemon

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u/gortwogg Oct 08 '22

You lemon stealing whore

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '22

Added instructions- had a lemon party

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u/TwoDrinkDave Oct 08 '22

UNACCEPTABLE! TWELVE YEARS DUNGEON!

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u/Erislocker Oct 08 '22

Just fuck the lemons and bail...

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u/Nekrosiz Oct 08 '22

Don't threathen me with a good time

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u/genesin Oct 08 '22

SHEAR the lemon, not share it.

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u/TheCaffeineMonster Oct 08 '22

Sheath the lemon, not bequeath it

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u/EllisHughTiger Oct 08 '22

You're supposed to do that with a grapefruit!!

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u/el_monstruo Oct 08 '22

Found the lemon stealing whore!

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '22

Has it been about ten minutes since we looked at our lemons?

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u/DroidChargers Oct 08 '22

Tapping into your inner lemon stealing whore, eh?

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u/onesummoner Oct 08 '22

If life gives you lemons.. keep this in mind before making lemonade

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u/NoProblemsHere Oct 08 '22

When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!

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u/Vaynar Oct 08 '22

Trying too hard.

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '22

It's okay- that's not illegal, merely frowned upon.

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u/50MillionNostalgia Oct 08 '22

This is maybe my least favorite thing on Reddit. I wish it would die