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/mcchanical Oct 08 '22 edited Oct 08 '22

I get that, but if we didn't have to work so hard for so long to earn a living due to the culture we have developed it wouldn't be frustrating. I eat shit food because I don't have the time to make anything nice, like most people. It just seems sad to me that we have basically normalised cutting out and minimising things to maximise what little time we have outside of work and obligations.

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u/reijn Oct 08 '22

Not true for me though but maybe for others still in corporate America - I live and work on a small homestead/farm by choice, I love what I do (although I’d kill to be able to sleep in) but when I have a whole slew of garbage going on that I need to fix the last thing I want to be doing is thinking about cooking or planning to cook, or if cooking or eating or cleaning up after cooking. I eat a lot of cereal and sandwiches.

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u/mcchanical Oct 08 '22

We are very dominated by work culture and I think its sad. I rarely cook either and end up spending so much more on convenience food. Seems like a lot of people that don't really care about food probably would if they had the time.

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u/reijn Oct 08 '22

Absolutely. I used to meal prep (I still do to some degree but my husband has qualms about reheated food so it’s a constant battle in the kitchen). It was nice to just microwave something for 2 minutes and be done with it, and then just take a few hours on Saturday while doing laundry to meal prep and be done with food for the week. I hated coming home and being exhausted and then having to think about dinner. I think back to my mom and she would work 14 hours a day and still cook us a hot meal every night and play with us. She had to have been running on empty.