Vitamins and nutritional supplements are a global industry that has annual sales of SEK 1,000 billion. A large part of the production is synthetic vitamins produced in factories, where they are produced using complex chemical compounds. The vitamins we buy rarely have anything to do with the plant kingdom - and among the raw materials you can find fossil fuels and acetone.
Play the clip above to see how it works when factory-made vitamins are produced synthetically.
Want to know more about vitamins and supplements? See the program The Truth About Vitamins in the World of Science on Monday, August 19 in SVT2, at. 20:00. The program can also be viewed already on SVT Play.