1,421
people found this helpful, as of 2023
ranked #5,454 most helpful
out of 571,544,897 reviews
★★★★★
Lesson learned: buy the good stuff
Strange story: my grandparents both lived into their late 90s. When I visited them as a child, I remember that their silverware had a odd, stinky smell, they attributed it to their well water. Years later, I read that selenium was an essential mineral that in most diets was either deficient or almost absent, and that it was critical to health and the function of the immune system. I started taking it, buying it at Walmart and I remember opening the bottle and immediately recalling the smell of my grandparents' silverware that was washed in their selenium rich well water. But last time, the bottle I bought didn't have the distinctive smell, it smelled like sawdust. Hearing about the scandal in which Walmart supplements were found to be phony, I purchased Now brands from Amazon, and when I opened the bottle, there it was: that peculiar, distinctive selenium smell.
I quit buying any supplements from Walmart and now buy all my supplements from Amazon.
October 2015 · Health and Household · verified purchase