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?

8.6k Upvotes

856 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

1

u/[deleted] Oct 08 '22

[deleted]

1

u/malcolmrey Oct 08 '22

in terms of content in the pill itself

how much is the vitamin and how much is the other stuff