The most commonly used vitamins and herbals

These data are from a telephone survey of more than 2500 randomly sampled noninstitutionalized Americans, which was published in 2002. The tables can also be found here.

Vitamins

• Multivitamin 26%
• Vitamin E 10%
• Vitamin C 9%
• Calcium 9%
• Magnesium 3%
• Zinc 2%
• Folic Acid 2%
• Vitamin B12 2%
• Vitamin D 2%
• Vitamin A 2%
• Any vitamin/mineral 40%

Herbal/Supplement

• Ginseng 3.3%
• Ginkgo 2.2%
• Garlic 1.9%
• Glucosamine 1.9%
• St. John’s Wort 1.3%
• Echinacea 1.3%
• Lecithin 1.1%
• Chondroitin 1.0%
• Creatine 0.9%
• Saw Palmetto 0.9%
• Any herbal/supplement 14%

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