Is Puritan's Pride legit?!
Question: Puritan's Pride, the vitamin company, has stuff for ridiculously cheap. I got a huge bottle of vitamins for about $2. I googled them and can't seem to find anything negative about them. I guess there's not way to know if their products are good or not. Just wondering if anyone has used their products or has any feedback about them.
Answers: Puritan's Pride, the vitamin company, has stuff for ridiculously cheap. I got a huge bottle of vitamins for about $2. I googled them and can't seem to find anything negative about them. I guess there's not way to know if their products are good or not. Just wondering if anyone has used their products or has any feedback about them.
Janet you are so terribly misinformed. Why did you waste our time? I have a Puritan Pride catalog in front of me. They also sell d'alpha 400IU. I have been buying a few times a year for 25 years and have never felt that they are cheating. The prices are low because they are not a repackager/distributor. They make and sell their own brand. I trust them and I too never seen negative words about them. And by the way I hate GNC. They are overpriced and when I visited one store, I knew more about the product than the product pushing salesperson who was a disgrace.
never heard of them
They are okay if you can't afford anything above that price range They are the main ones I have bought in the past few years and better than what you get in the stores. I would say even as good as most of GNC's.
they are the largest vitamin distributor in the U.S.A., very cheap, very good product, when their vitamins/herbs are examined they come out as truthful, I order from them personally as they are typically cheaper than anywhere else and often have 2 for 1 deals on everything
I personally won't touch anything GNC has, GNC is over priced and I don't rightly trust what they offer
I am sorry to say that I believe this company is (mostly) a rip-off. They sell, for instance, 100 capsules of Echinacea for $5.29. Most of the time you can get 2 bottles for the price of one, too. Why? Read the label here: http://www.puritan.com/pages/file.asp?xs... Notice the ingredient is Echinacea purpurea AERIEL. That's the leaves, flowers, stems & seeds. Not one iota of the part known to be medicinally effective - the ROOT. (For comparison, Nutraceutical Corp's VegLife brand costs $16.19 for 100 caps. It's made of pure root.)
Or look at their vitamin E and you'll see the same cheap substitute. You can get 2 bottles of 100 softgels each for only $6.35. But it is made of dl-Alpha Tocopheryl Acetate - a SYTHETIC vitamin. (Real E is called d-Alpha or Mixed Tocopheryl. Solaray gets $17.49 for 100 caps.) Synthetic vitamins are WORSE than none at all because they fool the body into thinking it has what it needs.
If you can't afford good quality vitamins from a reputable company (There are oodles: Now Foods, Twinlabs, Olympian, Nature's Way, Solaray, Thompson, et.al.) your best bet is to eat as healthy as you can. Grow some organic carrots in your backyard. Only whole grain cereals like oats and brown rice. Cook with olive oil. Eat more beans and lentils. Leave off the soda pop and deep fried foods and white sugar and imitation "American" cheese.
Companies like Puritan's are why some people give up on natural health, thinking supplements don't do any good!