{"product_id":"vitamin-c-multi-60-capsules","title":"Vitamin C Multi","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith Botanicals \u0026amp; Minerals · 60 Capsules\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eEach capsules provides\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eVitamin C\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e512mg\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e640%\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBaobab Fruit Pulp\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e100mg\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e-\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBlack Aged Garlic**\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e50mg\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e-\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eAcerola Cherry**\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e48mg\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e-\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eOlive Leaf**\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e40mg\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e-\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eTurmeric**\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e36mg\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e-\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eRosehip**\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e25mg\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e-\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eCitrus Bioflavonoids\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e25mg\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e-\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eCayenne Pepper**\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e20mg\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e-\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eReishi Mushroom Fruiting Body**\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e20mg\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e-\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBlack Elderberry**\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e15mg\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e-\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eGrapefruit Seed**\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e15mg\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e-\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eGinger Root**\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e10mg\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e-\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBioperine\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e2.6mg\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e-\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eLactobacillus Acidophilus\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e0.7mg\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e-\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e(125 million CFU)\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eVitamin E\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e5mg α-TE (7.5iu)\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e41%\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eZinc\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e5mg\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e50%\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eVitamin B6\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e1.5mg\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e107%\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSelenium\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e10μg\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e18%\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eVitamin D\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e2.5µg (100iu)\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e50%\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*NRV = Nutrient Reference Value\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- = NRV not established | ** = Equivalent weight from extract\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhen you've decided Vitamin C is part of your week\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLooking for vitamin C tablets? Ours are capsules, not tablets: Vitamin C Multi (With Botanicals \u0026amp; Minerals, 60 Capsules), made in the UK.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVitamin C is one of the few supplements almost everyone has an opinion about. A grandmother's lemon-and-honey at the first sniffle. A father's effervescent orange tablet. The tall green-and-orange tubs at the back of every gym. Whether you grew up with it as a kitchen ritual or a sports-shop habit, you've met it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat's harder to find is a Vitamin C bottle that doesn't oversell itself. Most of the noise around this nutrient comes from a 1970 book by Linus Pauling, the two-time Nobel laureate, who proposed that very large doses might do extraordinary things. The clinical work that followed has been honestly mixed. We won't relitigate that here. We will say what the food safety regulator has authorised — Vitamin C contributes to the normal function of the immune system, to normal collagen formation, to the reduction of tiredness and fatigue — and leave the dramatic claims to other people.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis bottle is the considered version of the story. 512mg of Vitamin C per capsule — six and a half times the NRV — sitting on top of seventeen quiet partners. Built for the person who wants a meaningful daily Vitamin C dose without surrendering to a wall of citrus-flavoured marketing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe bottle, in your hand\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSixty vegan capsules, in our cream pot with the green band. Take one capsule, one to three times a day, with food, with water. At one a day the bottle lasts two months. At three a day, twenty days — these are working-dose formulas, not gentle once-a-week vitamins.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVitamin C is water-soluble, which means the body uses what it needs and politely sends the rest down the plumbing. There's no point in heroic single doses; the body has a saturation point. What works is a steady daily presence, taken with the meals and the rituals you already have.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eVitamin C — the headline\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVitamin C\u003c\/strong\u003e — ascorbic acid — is one of only thirteen molecules the human body cannot make for itself. Most mammals synthesise it from glucose. Humans, the great apes, guinea pigs, and most bats lost the gene about forty million years ago, and we have eaten our Vitamin C from food ever since.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe discovery story is good. In 1747, James Lind, a Royal Navy surgeon on HMS \u003cem\u003eSalisbury\u003c\/em\u003e, ran what is generally counted as the first controlled clinical trial in medical history. Twelve sailors with scurvy, divided into pairs, each pair given a different proposed cure: cider, vinegar, sea water, garlic-and-mustard, oil of vitriol, and oranges and lemons. The two sailors on oranges and lemons recovered within a week. Lind's \u003cem\u003eA Treatise of the Scurvy\u003c\/em\u003e (1753) is one of the great quiet documents in medicine. The molecule itself wasn't isolated until 1932, when the Hungarian biochemist Albert Szent-Györgyi extracted it from paprika — Hungarian red pepper. He won the Nobel Prize for it five years later.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOur capsule delivers 512mg of Vitamin C per capsule — \u003cstrong\u003e640% of the European NRV\u003c\/strong\u003e. That's a working dose, well above what you'd get from a kitchen-rhythm orange, and it is the headline this whole formula is built around.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eBaobab fruit pulp — the African upside-down tree\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003ebaobab\u003c\/strong\u003e — \u003cem\u003eAdansonia digitata\u003c\/em\u003e — is one of the strangest trees on earth. The trunk swells and stores water like an enormous wooden barrel; the bare branches at the top look so much like roots that the tree's nickname across the African continent is \u003cem\u003ethe upside-down tree\u003c\/em\u003e. Mature baobabs live for over a thousand years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe fruit is a hard, woody, gourd-shaped pod. Inside, the seeds sit in a dry, creamy, tangy pulp that is naturally rich in Vitamin C — gram for gram, more than the equivalent weight of fresh orange. We use 100mg per capsule for the \u003cem\u003ewhole-food matrix\u003c\/em\u003e — the surrounding fibre and minerals that the bare ascorbic acid molecule travels with in nature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAcerola, black aged garlic, olive leaf, reishi — the supporting chorus\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAcerola\u003c\/strong\u003e — \u003cem\u003eMalpighia glabra\u003c\/em\u003e — is a small tropical cherry from the Caribbean. The fresh fruit is one of the most concentrated natural sources of Vitamin C in the plant kingdom — roughly thirty times the density of a fresh orange. We use 48mg per capsule.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBlack aged garlic\u003c\/strong\u003e is regular \u003cem\u003eAllium sativum\u003c\/em\u003e held under controlled warm humidity for several weeks. The cloves turn glossy black, the texture becomes jelly-like, and the sharp pungency is replaced by a sweet, balsamic flavour. The technique is Korean and Japanese in origin; aged black garlic has been a kitchen ingredient there for centuries. We use 50mg per capsule.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOlive leaf\u003c\/strong\u003e — \u003cem\u003eOlea europaea\u003c\/em\u003e — has been a Mediterranean folk medicine for thousands of years. The compound that has earned it its modern reputation is \u003cstrong\u003eoleuropein\u003c\/strong\u003e, the polyphenol that gives the leaves their distinctive bitterness. We use 40mg per capsule.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReishi\u003c\/strong\u003e — \u003cem\u003eGanoderma lucidum\u003c\/em\u003e — is the lacquer-glossy red bracket fungus that grows on East Asian hardwood logs. In the Han pharmacopoeia \u003cem\u003eShennong Bencao Jing\u003c\/em\u003e (around 200 AD) it is listed in the highest \u003cem\u003esuperior\u003c\/em\u003e class of herbs. We use 20mg of fruiting body extract per capsule — a long-quiet tradition nodded to at small dose.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCitrus bioflavonoids and rosehip — the colour-and-pigment partners\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe bioflavonoids — hesperidin, naringenin, eriocitrin, others — are the orange-and-yellow pigments that give citrus fruits their colour. They sit in the white pith and the inner segment walls — the parts of the orange most people throw away. In nature, ascorbic acid almost always travels alongside these pigments; the bare molecule on its own is a laboratory creation. We add 25mg of citrus bioflavonoid complex per capsule for that reason.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRosehip\u003c\/strong\u003e — \u003cem\u003eRosa canina\u003c\/em\u003e — adds another 25mg. Rosehip syrup, fed to British children through the war years when oranges were scarce, was the country's home-front Vitamin C. The dog-rose fruit is naturally rich in ascorbic acid plus a wider mix of carotenoids and flavonoids — another \u003cem\u003ewhole-food matrix\u003c\/em\u003e contribution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe smaller voices — turmeric, cayenne, elderberry, ginger, grapefruit seed, Bioperine\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe middle of the formula is a chorus of plants that each contribute 10–36mg per capsule. \u003cstrong\u003eTurmeric\u003c\/strong\u003e (36mg) for its curcumin pigment; \u003cstrong\u003ecayenne\u003c\/strong\u003e (20mg) for capsaicin warming; \u003cstrong\u003eblack elderberry\u003c\/strong\u003e (15mg) — the country-hedge berry of Northern Europe; \u003cstrong\u003egrapefruit seed\u003c\/strong\u003e (15mg); \u003cstrong\u003eginger\u003c\/strong\u003e (10mg); \u003cstrong\u003eBioperine\u003c\/strong\u003e (2.6mg) — the standardised black pepper extract with piperine, here to support the rest of the formula's absorption.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNone of these is the headline. Each is in here because, in a slow-built daily Vitamin C formula, the plant chorus changes the colour of the whole.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe trace mineral and live-culture spine\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe bottom of the label is the spine — the place where the EFSA-authorised wording lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVitamin E\u003c\/strong\u003e (5mg α-TE, 41% NRV) — contributes to the protection of cells from oxidative stress. \u003cstrong\u003eZinc\u003c\/strong\u003e (5mg, 50% NRV) — contributes to normal immune function and to the protection of cells from oxidative stress. \u003cstrong\u003eVitamin B6\u003c\/strong\u003e (1.5mg, 107% NRV) — contributes to the reduction of tiredness and fatigue. \u003cstrong\u003eSelenium\u003c\/strong\u003e (10μg, 18% NRV) — contributes to normal immune function. \u003cstrong\u003eVitamin D\u003c\/strong\u003e (2.5μg, 50% NRV) — contributes to normal immune function.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlus a small dose of \u003cstrong\u003eLactobacillus acidophilus\u003c\/strong\u003e — 125 million CFU. A live-culture nod. Not a probiotic in the high-strength sense — for that, look at our Live Cultures range — but a small daily presence here.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eHow to use it\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne capsule, one to three times a day, with food. Most people land on one or two a day. Three is the upper end and is the dose people use during a defined two-week period — for instance, around a stressful week, a long flight, a season change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA practical note: take this in the morning or with the midday meal. Vitamin C is mildly stimulating in the way coffee is mildly stimulating, and a 512mg capsule taken at 9pm has, in some sensitive people, a small effect on getting to sleep. Most don't notice. A few do.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eHonest caveats\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a food supplement — it complements a varied diet, doesn't replace one. Don't exceed three capsules a day.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you are pregnant or breastfeeding, talk to your GP first. If you are on iron-overload monitoring (haemochromatosis), bear in mind that high-dose Vitamin C increases iron absorption — useful for some people, the wrong direction for others. If you have a history of kidney stones, particularly oxalate stones, talk to your doctor before sustained high-dose Vitamin C use. If you take warfarin or other blood-thinners, check with your doctor — the small dose of garlic in this formula is well below culinary use, but worth flagging.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you've read this far, thank you. We tried to write the kind of page we'd want to read before spending money. Just a Royal Navy surgeon's lemon ration, a Hungarian paprika molecule, an upside-down African tree, and a small daily ritual.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e— Vitadefence\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vitadefence®","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57112212177276,"sku":"sku-51715713466634","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0952\/9317\/8236\/files\/Advanced_Immunity_Spectrum_v7_IMUC60_3pp_-_1_panel_FP200ML_front.png?v=1782463492","url":"https:\/\/leanandhealthy.myshopify.com\/products\/vitamin-c-multi-60-capsules","provider":"Lean \u0026 Healthy","version":"1.0","type":"link"}