STOP!! Before you pickup those vitamins..... Read the label!

I was at my local warehouse store and happened to cruise down the "vitamin" section and *this* one caught my eye… It's a very popular brand… Centrum! Flavor Burst!- mixed fruit…. Sounds fun, right?? A vitamin that looks and tastes like candy?!?  How can you go wrong??
 
Here are the ingredients…..
 
Ingredients: Sucrose, Corn Syrup, Water, Hydrogenated Coconut Oil, Choline Bitartrate, Maltodextrin, Acacia. Contains < 2% of: Ascorbic Acid (Vit. C), Beeswax, Biotin, Blue 1 Lake, Blue 2 Lake, Calcium Pantothenate, Carmine (color), Carnauba Wax, Cholecalciferol (Vit. D3), Cyanocobalamin (Vit. B12), dl-Alpha Tocopheryl Acetate (Vit. E), Folic Acid, Inositol, Lac-Resin, Lecithin (Soy), Modified Corn Starch, Natural and Artificial Flavors, Potassium Iodide, Pregelatinized Corn Starch, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (Vit. B6), Red 40 Lake, Titanium Dioxide, Vitamin A Palmitate, Zinc Sulfate. Contains: Soy.
 
 
Yummmm!!! Doesn't this just SCREAM "healthy" to you?? <<insert sarcasm here>> I'm particularly fond of the following ingredients<<more sarcasm here>>:
·         Sucrose (no explanation needed)
·         Corn syrup (no explanation needed)
·         Maltodextrin (MSG?)
·         Blue 1 Lake (no explanation needed)
·         Blue 2 Lake (no explanation needed)
·         Carmine (yummm… insects!!))
·         Carnauba wax (surfing anyone??)
·         Cyanocobalamin (cyanide anyone??)
·         dl-Alpha Tocopheryl Acetate (nothing like a synthetic chemically processed, petroleum based source of E)
·         lac-resin  (yummm….more insect stuffs!)
·         lecithin (soy- as a practice… I tend to stay far far away from conventional soy… no GM for me thanks)
·         natural and artificial flavors (flavors of what??? What does that mean??)
·         Modified Corn Starch (ummmm…. Well….. it's obviously modified== genetically that is… and likely MSG…)
·         Red 4 Lake (no explanation needed)
·         Titanium Dioxide (possible carcinogen based on the rate of incidence of respiratory tract cancer in rats.. wtfuzzy??? Umm… this is also used in milk.. niiiice, huh??)
·         Vitamin A Palmitate (just say no to synthetics!)
·         Contains: Soy (no explanation needed)
 
Look, I'm no chemist, biologist, or doctor… I'm a girl, who reads labels, and is good with research and "googling." It doesn't take a whole lot of acronyms after your name to figure out that this "adult vitamin" is something you may want to decline… The fact that it's even considered a vitamin and "good" for you is ludicrous… Obviously, the FDA is not looking out for the consumers best interest.. You know, buyer beware, and all that fun stuff! How's this for a novel idea….. eat WHOLE foods!! That's right, folks! REAL food! You know… the stuff that doesn't come out of a box or a laboratory. Maybe a vegetable or fruit here and there??  What are your thoughts?? Are you ready to mow folks over in a race to get this "vitamin" to add to your "medicine" chest??