Is it okay to to eat " too many" vitamins through food?
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swimmchick87
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I did a search but could only find posts about taking vitamin pills/supplements. I'm talking about going way over your percentages through actual food. My vitamin C for the past couple of days has been almost 400%, and my Vitamin A has been almost 200%. Is this okay or is it possible to have "too many" vitamins? I don't take any supplements or vitamin pills so this is all through food, but I feel like I'm eating pretty normally. The only thing I could think was that I've been eating two clementines/cuties a day (but they're so tiny?) and a spinach salad every day for the past couple of days.
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Vitamin C is water soluble and pretty safe. I don't think you can OD on that, so don't worry about vitamin C.
You CAN OD on vitamin A, but you'd need a lot. 200% is not a biggy.
And yes you can OD from a food source- it just takes a lot of work! It's easier to OD with a pill.
Just eat a sensible diet and don't worry about it0 -
The answer is that yes, you can get too many vitamins from food, but it's not that easy to do. If you have questions about a specific vitamin, google what the "Upper Limit" is for that vitamin, and it will tell you how much you shouldn't go over, so you can know for sure.0
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