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3 GMO Foods Likely in Your Multi-Vitamins

Saturday, September 21, 2013 13:06
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By Christina Sarich

Most of us have been told ‘take your vitamins’ on more than one occasion, and  we listen because…well, because vitamins are good for you. Right? Plus, not  everyone likes to eat their broccoli. The problem is that the vitamin  industry has been tainted with Big Ag and Big Pharma, too. Consider the  fact that Bayer is one of the largest makers of vitamins for children. This is a  huge drug and chemical giant responsible for helping to develop many GMOs, all  while creating health-boosting vitamins? Questionable. Can we really trust these  companies with our health?

Here are 3 GMO foods you probably never expected to find in your  vitamins:

1. GM Corn in the form of Ascorbic Acid or Vitamin C &  Maltodextrin
Sourcing non-GMO vitamin C is almost impossible in the US since most plants that  process ascorbic acid are contaminated with genetically modified corn. If that  weren’t bad enough, maltodextrin, another key ingredient in vitamins used as a  filler and food thickener has little to no nutritional value even when it is not  genetically modified. However, most maltodextrin is sourced from GMO-corn. The  makers of Now supplements openly admitted there were genetically modified soy  and corn in their products:

“All of our C is derived from standard corn not certified to be  non-GMO… Many products [in the industry at large]  contain soy or corn derivatives which are generally GMO’d. We are  motivated towards non-GMO-sourced products.

The Hungarians burned thousands of acres of GM corn in a no-nonsense policy  to oust Monsanto seed crops from their country, yet we are putting the stuff in  our ‘health’ food.

Read: 4  Common Dangers Lurking in Your ‘Health’ Supplements

2. GM Soy
This is another ‘filler’ in many vitamins used in the industry and another  one of Big Ag’s top three GMO crops. Soybeans, along with rice  and sugar beets, were one of the first crops genetically altered to be more  resistant to pests. It is prevalent in our local food sources, but also in countries over seas. Soy is arguably the  most common GM crop, with up to…

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