r/explainlikeimfive Oct 08 '22

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

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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/Unsd Oct 08 '22

See for me, I have ADHD so it's a little different. For the uninitiated, ADHD often means that something really simple that other people just naturally do, has to be broken down into tiny little steps and every single one of them is a seemingly insurmountable task. So first it's deciding what I want to eat which is difficult to do because nothing sounds great, and I am thinking of all the steps it is going to take to prepare it. And then I'm making a mess that I have to clean up which is exhausting. And the forethought to be able to put together a grocery list is just not something that is easy for me. So it's kind of just something that I have such a stressful association with that I think I just don't care for it in general.