Do vitamins get old?

Carpaydeeum
Carpaydeeum Posts: 116 Member
edited December 2024 in Food and Nutrition
I have a bottle of multivitamins from 2010...maybe older. Are they still useful to take?

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  • BrunetteRunner87
    BrunetteRunner87 Posts: 591 Member
    They should have an expiration date. Actually this week I realized all the bottles I had that I'd been taking we're expired and I picked up some new ones.
  • carld256
    carld256 Posts: 855 Member
    I just checked my vitamins. They have an expiration day (Jan 14), but no year ... hurmmm....

    I've read that many medications are still good and useable a couple of years after their expiration date. But I'm thinking vitamins will spoil eventually. They're probably safe, but may not be very effective. I'd say toss them since you don't really know how old they are.
  • BrunetteRunner87
    BrunetteRunner87 Posts: 591 Member
    Jan 14 is January 2014... mine are the same theyre still good!
  • carld256
    carld256 Posts: 855 Member
    Jan 14 is January 2014... mine are the same theyre still good!

    Yeah, I figured that out when I looked at the bottle again this morning. It was a real headslapping moment. I would have edited that part out but it wouldn't let me. :laugh:
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