Super Supplemental
A Specially Balanced Formulation
Super Supplemental - 120 Tablets
Super Supplemental Vitamins & Minerals augments any diet. Balanced nutrients are often in short supply during periods of physical stress or convalescence, or in a diet consisting of mostly processed foods. Supplementing your diet with Super Supplemental can help fill the void.
Benefits:
- Provides 100 percent or more of current daily requirements for 12 essential vitamins, plus significant amounts of 13 important minerals.
- Contains two important carotenoid antioxidants, lutein and lycopene.
- Offers extra amounts of essential B-vitamins (depleted by physical stress) for energy.
Super Supplemental
£19.95 £15.96
Ingredients: di-calcium phosphate, magnesium oxide, vitamin C, potassium citrate, cellulose (plant fibre), calcium, zinc gluconate, stearic acid, pantothenic acid, vitamin E, sodium carboxymethylcellulose, ferrous fumarate, niacin, magnesium stearate, selenium, choline bitartrate, inositol, calcium citrate, biotin, vitaminB6, thiamin, beta-carotene, magnesium, copper gluconate, silicon dioxide, broccoli flowers, asparagus stems, cabbage leaf, alfalfa herb, hesperidin, lemon Bioflavonoids, rutin, vitamin B12, Rose Hips extract, horsetail herb, vitamin D, potassium iodide, chromium, folacin and kelp plant.
Nature's Sunshine Products - Quality Without Compromise.
All of the ingredients in the Nature's Sunshine product range are extracted from organic and wild crafted sources. Most other manufactures use inferior quality synthetic ingredients which require more nutrients to process than are available from the products themselves.
Only naturally derived ingredients work as nature intended.
Nutritional Facts - Amount per tablet.
% Daily Value |
||
| Vitamin A (80% retinyl palmitate, 20% beta-carotene) | 1000 mcg |
125 |
| Vitamin C | 125 mg |
208 |
| Vitamin D | 2.7 mcg |
54 |
| Vitamin E | 18.2 mg |
182 |
| Vitamin B1 (thiamine) | 24 mg |
1670 |
| Vitamin B2 (riboflavin) | 4.7 mg |
294 |
| Niacin | 15 mg |
83 |
| Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine HCl) | 7.2 mg |
360 |
| Folic acid | 85 mcg |
42 |
| Vitamin B12 | 25 mcg |
2500 |
| Biotin | 79 mcg |
53 |
| Pantothenic acid | 34 mg |
569 |
| Calcium | 105 mg |
13 |
| Iron | 7.5 mg |
54 |
| Phosphorus | 66 mg |
8 |
| Iodine | 50 mcg |
54 |
| Magnesium | 100 mg |
34 |
| Zinc | 7.5 mg |
34 |
| Selenium | 25 mcg |
* |
| Copper | 25 mcg |
* |
| Manganese | 0.75 mg |
* |
| Chromium | 25 mcg |
* |
| Choline | 12.5 mg |
* |
*Daily Value not established.
Serving Size 1 Tablets.
Servings per Container: 120
Recommended Usage:
Take one tablet with a meal twice daily.
Click here for a multi-vitamins fact sheet. (pdf download).
What are Vitamins?
Vitamins are substances which, in small amounts, are necessary to sustain life. They must be obtained from food as they are either not made in the body at all, or are not made in sufficient quantities for growth, vitality and well-being. Lack of a particular vitamin or mineral can lead to incomplete metabolism, fatigue and other health problems, and in severe cases, to deficiency disease. A deficiency of a particular vitamin causes disease symptoms which can only be cured by that vitamin.
Vitamins are chemically unrelated substances and all are organic. Organic substances are those that contain carbon and come from materials that are living, such as plants and animals, or that were once living. It is impossible to sustain life without all the essential vitamins.
Is it Possible to Get Enough Vitamins and Minerals From Food?
People living in Western cultures usually have all the nutritional advantages and disadvantages of an affluent 
lifestyle. By choosing the right types and amounts of food from the wide range of fresh, processed, mixed or pre-prepared food available, it should be possible for the average person to meet the RDAs for vitamins. However, the food available in Western cultures provides more fats, sugars, sodium and alcohol than is consistent with a healthy diet.
Leaving aside the fact that opinions differ as to exactly what constitutes a balanced diet, not everyone is able to, or wants to, eat such a diet all the time. Individual vitamin and mineral requirements may vary as much as 200-fold due to differences in genetic make up, lifestyle, physical and emotional stress, and other factors. Some people are able to meet their nutritional requirements with an average diet and no supplements, while others have needs which are greater than their diet can meet.
The issue of the quality of the food we eat is also relevant. Modern methods of food production and manufacturing can adversely affect the nutritional value of food. Soil quality has been lowered through farming methods and the use of fertilizers. Many chemicals are added to food during the growing and processing stages and several of these, including pesticides, can accumulate in the body and have toxic effects. Fruit and vegetables are often picked before they are ripe, in some cases before they have developed their full content of vitamins and minerals. When food is stored for later use, some of the content may decay during storage. Processing of foods removes many valuable nutrients, and a person whose diet is high in these foods may be at risk of nutrient deficiencies.
How Good is the Average Diet?
Surveys suggest that most people do not consume a balanced diet. Results of nutrition surveys show a large gap between the dietary guidelines and what people actually eat. A US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey shows that sugar intake makes up 25 per cent of total calories and fat intake approaches 34 per cent. This means that foods which have poor nutritional value make up over half the daily calories.
Other results show that:
- On any one day, an estimated 45 per cent of people don't consume any fruit or juice, and 22 per cent don't eat any vegetables. Less than 10 per cent of people consume the recommended five or more servings of fruit and vegetables.
- Only a third of the population consumes foods from all the food groups on a typical day, with less than 3 per cent consuming foods from all food groups in at least the recommended amount.
- Many diets contain half the recommended amount of magnesium and folic acid, as many as 80 per cent of women who exercise may be iron-deficient, and the average calcium intake is 636 mg per day (two-thirds the RDA).
- Seventy-one per cent of males and 90 per cent of females consumed less than the 1980 recommended dietary allowance (RDA) of vitamin B6.
- The average calcium intake of teenage girls resembles that necessary for 3–5 year olds.
How Much of Each Vitamin and Mineral do we Need?
For every person who asks this question, the answer will be slightly different. Each one of us has different needs and different ways of meeting those needs – a unique combination of stress and biochemical individuality. Genetic factors play an important part in this. For example, recent research indicates that as many as 5 to 15 per cent of people may have a particular type of genetic mutation in the DNA which codes for an enzyme involved in the metabolism of an amino acid known as homocysteine. This leads to higher homocysteine concentrations and therefore an increased risk 
of heart disease, and in women, of having babies with neural tube defects. Because folate and other B vitamins are involved in homocysteine metabolism, such people have higher folate requirements than those who do not have this type of genetic mutation, and may need supplements. Future research may show the presence of other common genetic variations, which throws doubt on the concept of assuming normality for nutrient requirements in any population.
Lifestyle factors also play a part. Someone who smokes or has a history of illness will have greater vitamin and mineral needs than someone who does not. The nutrient needs of an Olympic athlete are different to those of someone who sits on the couch and watches TV all day. Needs also vary according to sex, age and specific life events; a pregnant woman needs more iron than an elderly woman. Stress, disease, prescription drugs, environmental factors and intense physical activity can also raise requirements.
People vary in their ability to absorb and metabolise different nutrients. One person's genetic make up may mean they get enough vitamin C from an average diet whereas another would benefit from taking a supplement. The amounts and types of food people eat and the way they cook also affects the ability to obtain enough nutritional value from food.
Recommended Dietary Allowances and Suggested Optimal Intakes:
| Men | Women | Suggested intake | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vitamin A | 1000 mcg |
800 mcg |
1500 mcg |
| Beta carotene | 10 to 30 mg |
||
| Thiamin | 1.2 mg |
1.1 mg |
5 to 10 mg |
| Riboflavin | 1.3 mg |
1.1 mg |
5 to 10 mg |
| Niacin | 16 mg |
14mg |
10 to 100 mg |
| Vitamin B6 (under 50) | 1.3 mg |
1.3 mg |
2 to 50 mg |
| Vitamin B6 (over 50) | 1.7 mg |
1.5 mg |
|
| Vitamin B12 | 2.4 mg |
2.4 mg |
11 to 100 mg |
| Pantothenic acid | 5 mg |
5 mg |
10 mg |
| Biotin | 30 mcg |
30 mcg |
30 to 300 mcg |
| Folic acid | 400 mcg |
400 mcg |
400 mcg |
| Vitamin C | 60 mg |
60 mg |
100 to 1000 mg |
| Vitamin D (under 50) | 200 IU |
200 IU |
100 to 600 IU |
| Vitamin D (over 50) | 400 IU |
400 IU |
|
| Vitamin D (over 70) | 600 IU |
600 IU |
|
| Vitamin E | 10 mg |
8 mg |
67 to 500 mg |
| Vitamin K | 80 mcg |
65 mcg |
60 to 300 mcg |
| Boron | 2 to 7 mg |
||
| Calcium (under 50) | 1000 mg |
1000 mg |
1200 to 1500 mg |
| Calcium (over 50) | 1200 mg |
1200 mg |
|
| Chromium | 20 to 200 mcg |
20 to 200 mcg |
200 to 400 mcg |
| Copper | 1.5 to 3 mg |
1.5 to 3 mg |
3 mg |
| Fluoride | 3.8 mg |
3.1 mg |
|
| Iodine | 150 mcg |
150 mcg |
200 mcg |
| Iron | 10 mg |
15 mg |
15 to 30 mg |
| Magnesium | 420 mg |
320 mg |
350 to 500 mg |
| Manganese | 2 to 5 mg |
2 to 5 mg |
10 mg |
| Molybdenum | 75 to 250 mcg |
75 to 250 mcg |
250 mcg |
| Phosphorus | 700 mg |
700 mg |
700 mg |
| Potassium | 2000 mg |
2000 mg |
2000 to 5000 mg |
| Selenium | 70 mcg |
55 mcg |
100 to 200 mcg |
| Vanadium | 10 to 60 mcg |
10 to 60 mcg |
50 to 100 mcg |
| Zinc | 15 mg |
12 mg |
15 to 30 mg |
