![]() Multivitamin, Puritan’s Pride ABC Plus Multi, Rainbow Light Prenatal One, Rainbow Light Women’s One, Smarty Pants Prenatal Formula, Source Naturals Men’s Life Force Multiple, Swanson Real Food Multi – Men’s Daily, Thorne Basic Nutrients 2/Day, and VitaFusion Men’s Multi. Twenty-seven products were selected for testing by ConsumerLab: Bayer Flintstones Complete, Bayer One A Day Women 50+, Bayer One A Day Women’s, Centrum Silver Women 50+, CVS Health Spectravite Men 50+, Equate Complete Multivitamin Adults 50+, Healthy Promise Multi-Vitamin – Savory Chicken Flavor – Cat, Kirkland Signature Daily Multi, Kirkland Signature Mature Multi, MegaFood Baby & Me 2, Nature Made Multi For Her 50+, Naturelo One Daily Multivitamin For Women 50+, Nature’s Way Alive! Men’s 50+ Ultra Potency, Nature’s Way Alpha Betic, New Chapter Women’s Multivitamin Gummy, Olly Kids Multi – Gummy Worms – A Peppy Punch of Orange and Strawberry, Pet Honesty 10-For-1 Multivitamin – Flavor: Chicken – Dog, Pet-Tabs – Dog, Pure Encapsulations O.N.E. The results are available online now in ConsumerLab's new Multivitamin and Multimineral Supplements Review, which includes test results and comparisons for 35 supplements for general use, women, men, individuals 50+, children, pets, and pregnant women. While the daily cost for a multivitamin ranged from just 3 cents to $1.00, several products on the higher end of this range were among those that failed testing.Īmong products that passed all tests of quality and were Approved, ConsumerLab selected Top Picks, based on quality, appropriateness of dosage, formulation, and value, for each of the following categories: ConsumerLab, however, applies the same standards to gummies as to tablets and capsules.ĬonsumerLab’s tests also showed that paying more for a multivitamin does not guarantee better quality. In fact, consumers may not be aware that, for this reason, USP standards for gummies are more lenient than for tablets and capsules. Many ingredients are less stable in gummies than in capsules and tablets, leading manufacturers to add large overages, an issue ConsumerLab has identified in testing other gummy products. In addition, one prenatal multivitamin was found to contain 88% more iodine than listed, a men’s multivitamin tablet failed to fully disintegrate within the allotted time in order to properly release its ingredients, and a pet supplement provided only 14% of its listed vitamin D. Seven of the 27 multivitamin/multimineral supplements ConsumerLab selected, purchased, and tested were found to contain far less, or far more, of a listed nutrient, including four gummy multivitamins selected for testing – several of which contained nearly double their claimed amounts of folate. Gummy vitamins were particularly likely to have issues. ![]() White Plains, New York, - Recent ConsumerLab tests revealed problems with nearly 30% of the popular multivitamin and multimineral supplements selected for testing. ![]()
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