Shopping At Costco For Vitamins & Supplements - What To Buy & Avoid

flavor family what is up it is art and bobby back at costco to talk all about the vitamins and supplements and protein powders i have here at costco that's actually been a pretty popular request so i thought i'd show you all the different things i have here because not all supplements are created equally not all vitamins are created equally so i want to show you what to buy what to avoid and why before we break down all that good stuff you know the drill like subscribe share more importantly bell icon is right below the video the reason why you want to enable all notifications is because we have three to four videos going live every single week including a live stream on friday night that's super fun and you do not want to miss out all right let's come down here there's so many vitamins here and i think a lot of them are stuff you just don't need or not the most quality sources so i'm not a doctor i don't play one on youtube so these are just my recommendations but i think it's something i see on tv all the time something like this it's a multivitamin in here centrum silver and i'm okay with multivitamins there's nothing wrong with it i just want to know the quality of the vitamins they're putting in here and i also wanted the other ingredients so here's the profile of the vitamins here which is all swell and dandy right but where i start to get really concerned is down here so i need my magnifying glass i see automatically there's maltodextrin and modified cornstarch that tells me there's two sources of gmo corn maltodextrin is also high in the glycemic index so something you got to keep a lookout on if you're watching your blood sugars and let me keep looking here and we see they're actually putting food coloring in their pills red 40 lake i mean yellow number six and a few other preservatives so ideally when you're getting a multivitamin or any vitamin you don't want the filler right you want all thriller so that's not something i would take we'll try to find a better multivitamin but out of the corner of my eye i actually do see something that i take on a daily basis we've talked about this in previous videos but this right here is something i would scoop specifically at costco it is the vital proteins collagen grass-fed collagen peptides and why do you want to scoop it specifically the price look at this art is gangbusters i've never seen a 24-ounce container for that cheap it is literally twice the price for that in many other places now why is collagen all the rage why is it such a big deal and why do i take it twice a day i put it in my morning tea or coffee and in my post-workout smoothie after the gym because as you get older you start to lose the natural collagen in your body i'm 41 years old okay i gotta start replenishing what i'm losing in addition to that it's really good for your hair skin teeth nails and your gut gut is very important to foster the bacteria in there it's fantastic this comes from grass-fed 100 pasture-raised bovine and if you pump in on here it says 20 grams of collagen per serving but the cool side effect of collagen is that you also get 18 grams for two scoops so it's actually nine grams of protein for one scoop i think they prefer to call it an added bonus yes an added bonus what i say side effect side effects may include protein i said no one ever it's usually side effects include nausea vomiting diarrhea uh it's not a complete uh protein right doesn't have all the branched chain amino acids but it's still really good this stuff is the real deal i would use it once a day it has no flavor so you can add it to anything you want really really good for you tons of health benefits now if you come across another product that i use this is the same thing they call it keto collagen because they put mct oil powder in there it's a little more expensive if we look at the price it's 35 so it's 31 dollars per pound the other one is definitely cheaper but the only difference in these ingredients is mct medium chain triglycerides and a little bit of stevia so if you don't mind the added price this has that nice flavor and they're using real chocolate here in the form of cocoa no sweetener no filler if you want a cheaper version buy the vital proteins add a scoop of uh unsweetened cocoa powder or raw cacao powder these are fantastic things then we see protein drinks like this you see mussel milk these are things that typically don't eat or take and i'll do a whole video about protein drinks but you look at something like this all right these are the ingredients on the protein drinks here you guys i mean we're talking about natural and artificial flavors we're talking about sunflower oil that's not expeller pressed we're talking about phosphates here so don't be like lured in by the fact that there is 30 grams of protein which is amazing it's not something i would put in my body right but we're gonna do a whole video about that if you want to know about the protein powders they have here they actually don't have too many that i love but i have a whole video about protein powders and a lot of them have natural flavors but check it out there's a couple best in class unfortunately they don't have them here all right let's go back to the vitamins okay i see something here that's marketed towards kids check it out this is something i'm very passionate about now that we have rose honey our five month old this is a multi-vitamin omega-3 vitamin d and choline kids vitamin which is fantastic right but we have to look at the makeup here of the vitamins that looks great but i always want you to turn your eyes to this the other ingredient main ingredient is organic cane sugar then we have organic tapioca syrup more sugar and let's see luckily the colors are natural right they're from black carrot juice and turmeric the problem is now that i know there's sugar here i look up here look how fine print this is five grams of added sugar for a four gummy serving so you guys five grams of sugar is just over one teaspoon of white refined sugar and tapioca starch you're actually nullifying a lot of the vitamin benefits when you're giving your kid that kind of sugar this is not something you want and it looks good on the surface but you gotta dive down deep and then also going back to reading the ingredients prenatal vitamins so something really really important it has a lot of stuff in here for women who are pregnant and look the nutritional profile of the vitamins are great but we look at the other ingredients and you tell me if you're pregnant and you want to feed your baby in utero the best stuff do you think sugar and gmo corn syrup is the best thing do you think natural flavors and palm oil are the best thing so this kind of stuff scares me and there's three grams of added sugar and two gummies so just under a teaspoon is three quarters of a teaspoon of sugar with all those other stuff desi my wife did a prenatal story on instagram and saved it to her profile of what she did she didn't take any of these kind of things she got independent vitamins from a really good source i believe from thorn and other places go to uh her account i'll put the link down below check out her story there's a ton of information on there but once again you read the other ingredients that's scary stuff you guys it's winter now right it's cold and flu season so we see stuff like airborne here hey you got airborne you want to hear what i'm going to talk about here so this is something i wouldn't get because even though it has the vitamin c and it does help immune and it has the nice vitamin profile here we look at the other ingredients and what do we see there we see natural and artificial flavors and they have sucralose which is another word for splenda so the thing is sucralose you know what sucralose yeah so it's fake sugar yeah you might show you on my camera for our youtube comment yeah so she was actually holding this in her hand the problem with sucralose another word for splenda it's a fake sugar that's actually worse than sugar in the first place because it tricks your brain into craving more sugar cravings in the future so even though this can help you with the vitamin c with the natural flavors and the artificial flavors it's total garbage so i wouldn't get this they used to have here at costco last winter these are turmeric boosting shots called from suja and that was turmeric and black pepper and coconut water and pineapple that was really good but now they're not carrying it this year and i'm super bummed out so yeah probably people weren't buying yeah because they want the convenience of a pill or a fizzy thing and then if you go to the airborne original this is even scarier because see how these pieces are coated in sugar to the tune of look at this there's seven grams of sugar in a three gummy serving size so do when you think of seven grams of sugar how much would you think that is in terms of like a teaspoon a tablespoon maybe two two two teaspoons yeah you're 100 right yeah it's just about two teaspoons of sugar but can you imagine getting something that's supposed to be good for you with vitamin c but then washing it down with two teaspoons of sugar it defeats the purpose so i would go to trader joe's or anywhere that sells those immune boosting shots or if you go on my website shameless plug i have my immune system boosting tea with real turmeric and ginger that's much better so probably didn't mary poppins say just a spoonful of sugar yeah i don't think mary knew about that kind of stuff so i hope we helped you here thank you for being in the video yeah but okay she was really nice it's like we planned that but we didn't that's why i love costco you just run into the friendliest people here this is my new cheers call me cliff clavin because uh this is my new uh everybody knows my name so i am 100 okay getting pure vitamins like this right everyone might need a vitamin e boost or in the winter time you might need a vitamin d boost these are okay with me right because it's just whoopsie i was gonna say it's just vitamin d with soybean oil because it's a gel yeah but it's with gmo highly processed refined soybean oil so that's actually not cool but if i get nature's bounty soybean oil oh my god nature's bounty has soybean oil there's got to be one without soybean oil like i understand they have to mix it with something soybean oil okay so we have to find stuff like liquid vitamin d and vitamin e that don't have the soybean oil i ideally want to see it with a neutral oil that's heart healthy and not processed like avocado oil olive oil coconut oil man i thought i was going to pick this up and it'd be 100 fine and it's not let's see here i normally get my omega-3 fatty acids from eating a lot of seafood and salmon but if you need a supplement this is probably best in class here this is not only fish oil it's wild alaskan which has the best nutritional profile and the reason why i like this look there's no other oils in here or anything it's actually clean as can be so that's really nice to see that let's go around the corner there's a ton more stuff here every time we do a video at costco somehow the huge pack of trojans always ends up here so i'm assuming this is the best deal how do you check out with this at the front it's kind of embarrassing rather oh it's for a friend or we make water balloons out of there 33 cents i'm assuming that's a good price i've been married for a while i don't remember the price on that this is something i love check it out art this is mct oil that's organic look at the price really nice 23 from coconuts this is great because mct oil is great at increasing energy and weight loss and has brain boosting abilities there's no negative stuff in here the oil sometimes does separate so if you put it into a smoothie it might float to the top but this is great i know this company now makes a thick it's a golden milk with turmeric and it's at some costcos they actually asked me to do a sponsorship with them but their golden milk has natural flavor so i can't get behind it but the other ingredients are pretty good and then right next to it this is amino essential amino acid so we talked earlier about the uh still here we don't we don't go away this is our second home well it's funny that's uh sean norvan say hi again norvin [Laughter] you're the best norman you might recognize you might recognize norman from the seafood video he's like you guys are still here this is what we do we go to the stores all day every day so like the um bone broth powder it's not a complete branched chain amino acid this has more amino acid profile here but the problem is even though it has all these great aminos here which is lovely we always turn our eyes down here natural and artificial flavor not good for business sucralose fake sugar splenda carrageenan in here too oh wow and blue number two and a little red number 40 to top it off wow that's why we read the other ingredients that is not something i would get at all over here is something a little more interesting right a little more homeopathic turmeric is all the rage these days why it's an anti-inflammatory it's an anti-carcinogen this is pure turmeric it looks like it's curcumin c3 complex and look at that there's nothing else in here so it's different than getting turmeric to cook with because it's this different variety it's the c3 other ingredients love to see that so you could scoop that in your shakes and that'd be a great turmeric booster in the winter you really want this i was talking about my immune system boosting tea turmeric or really fight off any bugs and keep you strong like bull i really believe in that same thing with this the turmeric these are capsules so you just gotta make sure cellulose so this is fine but i think just getting the powder is going to be way cheaper and what else is here we have i'd rather get the collagen in the powder form but this is collagen here in a pill the problem is it doesn't say if it's grass-fed so even though it is clean this doesn't tell me if it's grass-fed let's see here nope so i can't know if this is something i would get let's take a look there's so many things here let's just kind of browse around costco the documentary it is the documentary happening there's so much to talk about all right we got to see where bobby's at he's around here doing his thing as usual where is he ah there you go i'm over here art come over i just want to close on this because i think we pretty much covered everything else just like with that airborne right if you're going to get something like emergency that has that vitamin c well yeah it has the vitamin c boost here with a nice profile but in the other ingredients it just gets scary you guys you get natural flavors you get caramel coloring you get gmo maltodextrin this is not the kind of stuff you want to put in the body right stick with the turmeric tea stick with the uh those sujo or those trader joe's immune shots just gotta read the other ingredients because nine times out of ten we're seeing here maybe seven times out of ten they're just not good so that is it we just covered a bunch of the vitamins the supplements the protein powders at costco heck i hate to go home this is my second home right so if you want more videos from costco you let us know but this was what we're doing three videos this week for costco week we got our cookbook over on the cookbook section already but we need your help like i said in the other videos it's a limited run so if you live near the costco's at the test locations that are down in the description box get the flav city family out there let's sell them out so they get a nationwide order which would be amazing uh that is it two more videos going below art and i like subscribe share these videos are a beast to make and like the people who are shopping or saying you guys still here yes we're always here but art and i will see you very soon until then we say unto you like we always do hashtag keep on cooking mad love and peace

Channel: FlavCity with Bobby Parrish

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Length: 16min 24sec (984 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 15 2019