Amazon.co.uk:Customer reviews: Amazon Brand - Solimo Vitamin D 25 μg Food Supplement, 365 Tablets

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Exactly what it is supposed to be. Great value and arrived quickly. Great!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 June 2019

They are what they are supposed to be. Six months supply of vitamin D. They are very small tablets and therefore easy to swallow. They don’t taste of much but I don’t take these for the taste. The container is easy to open and the bottle has a wide neck to easily get at the tablets. Good value for money too. Recommended.

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2.5 times the daily recommended dose. Why?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 May 2019

The daily recommended intake of vitamin D between September and April is 10 µg (micrograms) for adults. So I'm not sure why they have given us 25 µg per tablet in this tub. That's 2.5 times as much as you need. And given that they do indeed is fat-soluble you can't get rid of the excess through urination, it doesn't seem ideal.
In future, I shall choose a pack with the right amount of daily dose.

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Mr. Pedantic

Exactly what it is supposed to be. Great value and arrived quickly. Great!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 June 2019

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 March 2021

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Best price for amount, that can be found anywhere.

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K. J. Knapp

Fast delivery

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 September 2019

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Seem to be doing their job

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Useful supplement at a bargain price but too high a dose?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 June 2019

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Even if you don’t use other supplements (and few people need to), vitamin D is likely to be worth taking, at least in winter in the UK when there’s so little sun on your skin.

Like most Amazon branded products, these small, easy-to-swallow tablets are great value. The concern I have is that the dosage may be too high or at least unnecessarily high. These are 25 μg but an article in Which? magazine recently suggested 10 μg is all anyone needs. Any more could interfere with blood pressure and cholesterol tablets, and won’t give you any benefit.

Amazon offers a 10 μg version of these and they are perhaps the right dosage. Search for B07GTFT3TN. Apart from anything else, they’ll save you money!

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Emily - London

Worth taking in middle age

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 May 2019

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These are just over 3p per daily dose. They are not quite as easy to swallow as some tiny gel D3 capsules I reviewed recently, but they are small and went down on the second swallow of my hot tea.

European guidelines are that an adequate daily intake is 15 micrograms daily. The European Menopause and Andropause Society recommends postmenopausal women consume 15 µg (600 IU) until age 70, and 20 µg (800 IU) from age 71. Each of these capsules contains 25 micrograms. So this is a good dosage, well within safety limits.

Vitamin D supplementation is no cure-all. A read of the Wikipedia article makes you realise that the evidence for benefits is not as clear cut as you might think. But I find it is increasingly common for middle aged people like me, with indoor jobs, to get a blood test back saying they are deficient in Vitamin D. As we get older, our bodies get less effective at manufacturing Vitamin D from sunlight.

Other risk factors can include having darker skin, covering up a lot in a temperate climate, avoiding animal-based foods, and not eating the UK English staple foods that have Vitamin D added to them – like non organic milk and substitutes, margarine, and cereals. A 10g serving of my olive spread contain 0.5 micrograms of Vitamin D, an egg contains just over 1 microgram, and 100ml of non-dairy milk contains 0.75 micrograms, so it can be quite hard work getting enough vitamin D from a low meat or vegetarian diet.

It does seem to be the case that low Vitamin D levels can reduce calcium absorption, and may be associated with increased fractures in the elderly. It also seems that low Vitamin D is associated with longer and more frequent viral infections.

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 June 2019

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More people in the UK are vitamin D deficient - or at risk of deficiency - than realised, and the official government advice is for a number of large population groups to take a vitamin D supplement, particularly in winter.

I have been supplementing vitamin D for a long time, as I have multiple sclerosis, which is linked to poor absorption of the vitamin. Whether it is the placebo effect or a genuine benefit, I feel better if I am taking vitamin D, with more energy and clearer thought. I have been taking two of these daily, so the bottle is around six months supply, and at the current price I feel this is good value.

The tablets themselves are tasteless and quite small, so are easy to take.

As with any supplement, check with your GP before taking.

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Excellent value tablets for lifelong management of vitamin D deficiency

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 June 2019

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These are great value high strength vitamin D tablets, ideal if like me you are medically vitamin D deficient and need lifelong Vitamin D supplements. The tablets are 25µg (1000 IU) of vitamin D per tablet so higher than most people require. Latest evidence suggests that most people should take 10µg of vitamin D a day during autumn and winter months, so I would recommend a lower dose for general Vitamin D supplementation for healthy people with no underlying medical conditions that reduce vitamin D absorption.

These tablets offer excellent value for money and are a considerably cheaper alternative to the ones I used to get from a well known high street chemist. The tablets look exactly the same as my previous ones, so small and very easy to swallow, with no adverse stomach affects.

Highly recommended.

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High Dose Vitamin D

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 August 2019

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Vitamin D is different from most other vitamins. In fact, it’s a steroid hormone produced from cholesterol when your skin is exposed to the sun. It's particularly related to bone health.

Humans originally evolved in sunny parts of the planet, and spent all day outdoors. Most of us now spend long hours working indoors these days, instead of being outside like our ancestors. As a result, a large percentage of the population in industrialised countries are deficient in this important vitamin, and supplementation is widely advised.

These pills provide an easy and convenient supplement that is cost effective. This is the high dose version from Solimo which contains more than the recommended dose, so you might want to also consider the standard dose Solimo brand Vit D tablet, which is cheaper.

The reason I've awarded four stars is that I'd have preferred to see vitamin D3 and not D1 being used - it's the natural form of the vitamin that's more easily available to the body, and offered in some competitor products.

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A lot of tablets for the money but quite a high dose

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 June 2019

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These Solimo Vitamin D are great value. Solimo is Amazon's own brand of vitamins and all of those we've tried so far have been easy to swallow and great value for money.

The Vitamin D tablets are 25 μg, which is 15 μg more than you really need. Having checked, there's some concern over larger doses in some studies so it's perhaps worth talking to a GP if you're concerned before you start taking these. However, Vitamin D is really important, especially if you're not getting enough sun.

On the plus side these continue the trend for Amazon tablets of being really easy to take and the price is great for a year's worth.

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Good Value Vitamin D

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 May 2019

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A review for Amazon Brand - Solimo Vitamin D 25 μg Food Supplement, 365 Tablets.

A well priced years supply of vitamin D supplement from Amazons Solimo health product brand. These are suitable for vegetarians (as stated on the pack!) and a small easy swallow tablets. They come in a small silver plastic tub, which is recyclable after use. Each tablet provides around 500% NRV (same as RDA- Recommended daily allowance) so around 5 times your recommended daily amount, this may sound a lot, but does fall broadly into the suggested intake for the body. Vitamin D is essential for the promotion of healthy bones normal diets and absorption via the skin from the sun, however northern climates may cause a deficiency to occur.

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