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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