A Time of Magic

I can understand the need for vitamin supplements in the war years and indeed in the post war years of austerity when diets weren’t quite what they should be. However, these days it seems something of a puzzle given the wide range of foods commonly available and the overall improvements in our diets over the years.

Yet, still there are significant numbers of vitamin supplements on the supermarket shelves.

To be fair, some of that is down to the rise in the numbers of vegetarians in the post-war period. Some vitamins simply aren’t in non-animal products so they’re going to have to take them unless their food is contaminated with microbes of faeces-based fertilizers (so, no, there are no 100% vegetarians). Similarly there are others on various diets that exclude one or more vitamins. But even so it does seem odd that there are quite so many vitamins on the shelves.

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