Vitamins and supplements in Ghana and elsewhere are important addition to your health and can be consumed daily with clear benefits. Vitamins and supplements can be purchased almost anywhere today, including the internet, the gas station, and the grocery store. It seems strange that vitamins and supplements are so easily available today. Before, the only serious place to buy vitamins was the pharmacy. However, with the new wave of health food stores and supplement stores, there seem to be quite a few places to buy vitamins and supplements. Of course, if you don’t want to go shopping, you can always order vitamins online.
There are pros and cons to buying vitamins and supplements at each outlet, so here’s a breakdown of what you can expect at each outlet when buying vitamins.
On Loozap and various other internet websites
Visit Loozap Ghana to shop for vitamins and supplements in Ghana. The prices are cheaper, and you can find almost anything you want. Again, the only caveat here is that you can’t see where these vitamins are stored before you receive them. So, what you receive in the mail can be exposed to almost any condition imaginable. Always rely on the rating of the seller to pick the right seller for your products.
Gas stations across Ghana
Amazingly, you can now boost your immune system right where you fill up your gas tank. That’s because gas stations and convenience stores now sell vitamins at counters where you pay for gas and convenience items. These vitamins are sold in individual packages, usually labeled “Energy Blast” or “Immune Zap.” Obviously, these overpriced packages are a gimmick to get the harassed worker or professional truck driver to pay nearly six bucks for a handful of vitamins. Avoid these vitamins and supplements at all costs.
grocery stores
The grocery store aisle used to have a few multivitamins and supplements, but that has changed dramatically in the last decade. Now, in larger grocery stores, there is often an entire aisle dedicated to vitamins and supplements. If you know what you need to buy and you can find it cheaper at the grocery store, go ahead and grab it. However, in general, you should avoid buying vitamins at the supermarket, unless you are only buying a multivitamin. This is because the vitamins are on the shelves under fluorescent lighting, which removes the nutrients from the vitamins. Plus, they’re stored and replenished by grocery store employees, who probably aren’t trained in vitamin handling. This means that it is not known where the vitamins have been stored before they hit the shelves.
Pharmacy
Pharmacies are also branching out to include all kinds of vitamins and supplements. However, once again, these vitamins and supplements are stored under fluorescent light. Also, storage is still an issue. While prescription drugs are stored in a controlled environment, vitamins are stored with everything else. So before you buy them, they may have been stored in extreme temperatures for months before hitting store shelves. However, the nice thing about buying vitamins and supplements at the pharmacy is that you can talk to the pharmacist about any interactions that the vitamins you’re buying might have with medication you’re already taking.
Supplement stores
Supplement stores, often found in malls, are a good place for athletes to find vitamins and supplements. Here you will find all kinds of supplements to increase performance, gain muscle mass and heal sports injuries faster. Many supplements are sold together in packages that claim to produce the desired result much more effectively and superiorly than normal doses of vitamins alone. There are many good products out there but beware of companies trying to sell you overpriced supplements that sound too good to be true.
The health food store
This is the best place to shop for vitamins and supplements if you have a specific brand or type of supplement you’re looking for. If you’ve read about a new supplement in a magazine or on the Internet, the best place to find it is the health food store. Not only will you find almost every vitamin and supplement imaginable here, but you’ll also find them in all their forms. Supplements at the health food store are also stored properly. They are away from sunlight and fluorescent lights, and are kept at the right temperature.
