You don’t need to take vitamins when you’re sick. That is just a myth started with some of those homeopathic medicines and the “emergenC” stuff. They are just vitamins and your body can only use so much and the extra will just come out in your pee. So if you are deficient in something then vitamins might help. But getting from food is by far the best

Because marketing.

Mostly. Certainly, there are specific times in which we have nutritional deficiencies, but the Flintstones probably shouldn't be the arbiter of that.

Thank you

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And, realistically, most Americans aren't deficient in Vitamin C anyway. It's found in all sorts of foods to add a sour flavor - a pack of your average sour candy is several day's worth of RDI.

No problem. Just keep in mind, and through no action on my part, I'm nobody. These type threads tend to get shut down pretty quickly because it's a forum in which we should promote objective answers that can be validated by all.

This is one in which there is no singular objective answer because it's too broad a question.

Wait wait..vitamin C is in sour flavoring!!??? So sour patch kids are saving me from scurvy?!?!

Well, not specifically sour patch kids (they're flavored with citric and tartaric acid, not ascorbic [which is vitamin C]), but yes.

Ahh man lol. I was so excited for a min there. I was getting you tell my wife they’re basically vitamins lol

We don’t. We need to take vitamins when we have a poor diet, not when we are sick… Unless that sickness is the lack of a specific vitamin itself, which was itself caused by a bad diet, so it’s not really an exception

The Flintstones sold Winston brand cigarettes to us, the vitamins are just their "my bad."

Advertising and marketing has been host to many beliefs that aren't necessarily rooted in truth or reality unfortunately.