There is a common statement among those selling mixed tocopherol vitamin e products that say that vitamin E from the diet has a lot more gamma than alpha. This may or may not be true. Nuts that high in alpha tend to have very little gamma! Nuts that are high in gamma tend to have little alpha.
The point is:
Don't assume that the vitamin e you get from food is in the optimal ratio of tocopherols. For example if you eat a lot of sunflower seeds or almonds, you would get a lot of alpha and very little gamma tocopherol.
http://www.dietaryfi...m/Vitamin-E.php
Edited by health_nutty, 23 August 2007 - 12:09 AM.