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Tesco Vitamin B Complex
by Ninski1
I try to eat a healthy diet and I use vitamin supplements to give me an extra boost just in case I am deficient in anyway. I recently picked up the Tesco Vitamin B complex tablets in my local Tesco store. They are currenlty priced (May 2013) at £1.69 for 90 tablets or £4.06 for 240 tablets, when I purchased them they were on a three ... for two deal so I managed to save myself a bit of money and now have enough tablets to last me until 2014!.
The vitamin tablets are presented in a plastic bottle that is white and has a screw off pop lid that is purple and is fairly easy to move by twisting and pulling at the same time, it is designed to be child proof and does not leak or come off if you carry it around in your bag, which I tend to do. The tablets are easy to swallow, I take mine after breakfast. They have a slightly yeasty smell that is not unpleasant but reminds me of the brewers yeast my mother used to take when I was a child.
The tablets contain the following ingredients:
Calcium Carbonate,Cellulose ,Dicalcium Phosphate ,Niacin ,Maltodextrin ,Pantothenic Acid ,Mannitol ,Magnesium Stearate ,Vitamin B6 ,Thiamin ,Riboflavin ,Silicon Dioxide ,Folic Acid ,Biotin ,Vitamin B12.
The bottle says that this mixture of ingredients provides you with the recommend daily allowance of each of the ingredients stated above and that they are suitable for vegetarians. In addition they are free from milk, wheat, eggs and fish.
The Vitamin B complex is designed to give you a balance of all the B vitamins that are supposed to be necessary for helping you to convert the food you eat into energy and therefore keep you healthy and active. Vitamin B's are also suppoed to help with providing you with a healthy nervous system and assist in ensuring that you have healthy skin. In addition Vitamin B vitamins are also supposed to help in hormonal balancing in women, so that can only really be a good thing for some.
On the front of the bottle the vitamins are marketed as 'energy' which I assume means that Tesco have categorised their vitamins into easily recognisable labelling to help us choose what vitamins would best suit our particluar needs. I find this to be pretty helpful. On the back of the bottle is the usual bumpf about ingredients, how to store them; in a dry, cool place and to not exceed the use by date.
I have been taking the Vitamin B complex for a few weeks now and too be honest I have yet to notice much of a change in either my hair, skin, nervous system or general health. This I however, put down to the fact that vitamins usually tend to take a while to get into your system and do you any good, if any at all. I have noticed that I am a tiny be less hormonal, though I am not very stressed at work at the moment so this could have something to do with it.
Overall I would recommend this vitamin B comlex tablets to others as they are well priced, easy to swallow, the bottle is easy to open, close and store and I am sure that deep down they are doing me some good. I give the product 3 Dooyoo stars, as they have yet to show me that they are working, but in all other respect they are good.
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Berocca Effervescent Tablets
by santasbaby
Berocca is a pleasant orange tasting lightly sparkling drink that you can take first thing in a morning. Just drop the effervescent tablet into a tumbler of water and it's as simple as that. It's far easier to swallow than actual tablets and I found that after a couple of weeks I actually looked forward to my morning dose. I first tried ... Berocca after suffering a series of colds that seemed to drag on for weeks. Previous to this I had taken multi vitamins and even tried a course of Siberian Ginseng in an effort to boost my energy levels. I can honestly say that Berocca works for me. I have been taking it for quite a while now and I have been free from colds and despite being in the presence of work colleagues, family and friends struck down with all manner of nasty bugs, I have not succumbed to any of them. I cannot say that Berocca has given me energy and I do not see myself dancing on water logs any day soon but I do believe it has given my immune system a kick in the right direction. If in any doubt I would say, give it a try, as often you are able to buy it on a three for two basis which works out at quite good value. If it keep colds at bay as it has for me, it is well worth giving it a couple of months trial.
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Vicks Vitality Booster
by xxfoxyredxx
One thing that gets me down in my life more than anything is a severe lack of energy. I suffer with M.E, Hyperthyroidism and an eating disorder, all illnesses that on there own are exhausting enough without having all the 3 problems kicking you up the bum all the time, so I struggle in my life which leads to depression and I have other ... health problems as well! Not good!
I am a pro active person though, yes some days I give in to my tiredness and completely do not a lot however if this was to help and refresh me I'd do it more often but for me it has the opposite effect and makes me more tired so I do try to get and keep moving as much as I can!
Whenever I do get out (which isn't as often as I like or for as long as I like!) I do always browse at vitamins and supplements and have bought many different things over the years but looking back I don't think I've ever ended up not wasting my money or finding anything to help me at all and I spend alot of time on M.E websites and the likes looking at what other people are trying, recommending and dissing and then looking online on places like Amazon to see if they stock it (thank you God for Amazon for someone like me who for obvious reasons is a fan of home shoppin!).
These I bought on a market, actually they were so cheap at about £1.00 a box and being a Vicks product and called 'Vitality Booster' I bought several boxes of them and had high hopes for them, a quick check online tells me that that a box of 20 of these sticks can retail at as much as £7.99 a time though they are not readily available and I can't find a high street stockist of these.
The Packaging:
These come in a very nice quality dark blue, orange and green box with a picture shown of a silver coloured man on the front of it and we are clearly told that they are indeed Vicks Vitality Booster 'Top-up your natural defenses' and that they are Anti-oxidant 'Green tea & vitamins + citrus bioflaonoids' and that they have a delicious citrus taste and that they are to be directly popped into the mouth and are a powder and that mine come in a 20 stick pack. Other information on the sides and the back of the box include being told a bit about the product and what they should be used for, dosage advice and the composition of them and the ingredients are given, there are lots of warnings given and contact details for Procter & Gamble (the manufacturer of the product are clearly stated). Inside the box there is a large white leaflet again giving us yet more information on the 'sticks' and the sticks themselves are little foil, oblong in shape sticks and simply on the front of each one we are told again what they are and who they are by and that to use them there is no need for water and to stick them straight into your mouth and on he back of them we are told to refer to the box if we need any further information about them. Easy to open sticks these are and the packaging is all very highly informative too.
The Sticks/POwder:
These (according to the packaging) are meant for all round, daily use to help people get on with their lives, especially when the days get shorter and colder!
The powders are made from all natural ingredients and have a high dose of vitamin D to help give energy and to help support your immune system, Vitamin D is meant is meant to help with winter blues and the immune system, Vitamin B is meant to help maintain vitality and your energy levels, Green Tea is meant to be a great antioxidant and meant to help to give your a skin a natural, healthy glow and the Citrus Biofavonoid is a very powerful antioxidant apparently and it is meant to help with the absorption of Vitamin C as well, handy as these contain Vitamin C eh?! lol.
The dosage advice is very simple indeed to follow. You can take up to 2 of the sticks per day so I take 2 of these to try to get the best effects from them possible and they are suitable for most people over the age of 6 years old to take though there are exceptions to this clearly listed on the box the sticks come in and on the leaflet provided of course.
All you do with these is to tip them directly on the tongue, no water or drink is required at all and the light orange coloured powder tastes sweet and tasty and a bit tarty of oranges. Its refreshing and really nice and melts to like a syrup very quickly indeed and that's it job done, its that simple to take them. The sticks are easy to always keep on you as they are so small and they are convenient to take no matter the situation your in!
Do I Find The Effective Though?:
After all I have written about them I'd love to report yes, taken on a very regular basis with the maximum dose and one take of a morning and one day, every day I'd like to say that the word on the box Vitality is what I have and its all thanks to these....but sadly I can't report that I feel any better in any shape or form, my immune system is just as bad as ever and I am not bouncing off the walls or have I taken up jogging!
I can't say of course if the extra vitamins I am getting from these is helping me, I just don't 'feel' better for taking them and I have taken these now about 4 months regularly with the boxes I originally invested in. These are not easy to get hold of and I don't think they are work tracking down or anywhere near the rrp of almost £8.00 a box so unless you see them going cheap somewhere I really wouldn't go hunting them down if I was you!
I'm disappointed in these to be honest and think its a shame that they are so easy use and taste so great but all that they would do is cost me a fortune....not for me these sadly!
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