# Where do the vitamins in a multi-vitamin come from?

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**Created:** [February 7, 2005, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-the-vitamins-in-a-multi-vitamin-come-from/288840 "2005-02-07T17:57:51Z")\
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Where do the vitamins in a multi-vitamin come from?

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**Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-the-vitamins-in-a-multi-vitamin-come-from/288840/2 "2005-02-07T18:13:41Z")

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Vitamin trees.

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**Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-the-vitamins-in-a-multi-vitamin-come-from/288840/3 "2005-02-07T18:19:54Z")

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> [@RunSilent](#):
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> Vitamin trees.

Not anymore they don’t. That was wasteful and labor intensive. Since the discovery of large subterranean deposits of the most common ones, the industry has by and large switched to vitamines.

Sorry, couldn’t resist…