Daily Vegan Multivitamin Gummies

It depends what you want from one. The evidence that a daily multivitamin prevents disease in an otherwise healthy, well-fed adult is thin, and the NHS position is that most people should get what they need from a varied diet. Where they do earn their place is filling a specific gap: the NHS advises everyone to consider 10ug of vitamin D a day in autumn and winter, that is exactly what two of these give you.

They work to the extent of what is in them, which is why the percentage column matters more than the word gummy. Two of these give 10ug of vitamin D, the amount the NHS says adults should consider daily in autumn and winter, plus vitamin C, zinc and niacin each at 100% of the daily reference intake.

Some are close to it, and that is the fair criticism of the format. The test is the panel: what is the serving size, and what percentage of the daily reference intake does each nutrient reach. These are nine nutrients with nothing under 30%, in a two-gummy serving.

Worth asking honestly. If you eat well, get outdoors in summer and have no particular gap, a multivitamin is unlikely to transform anything. If you know your diet has holes in it, or you are indoors through a British winter, the vitamin D alone is a reasonable argument. What is not worth it is a bottle you stop taking in week two.

Tablets hold more nutrients, including iron, calcium and magnesium, which are hard to put in a gummy at all. Gummies also carry sugar and degrade faster. What a gummy can be better at is getting taken. The honest comparison is per nutrient: read the percentage column on both and see which numbers you are actually getting.

It is a fair question, and independent testing has found gummies both over and under their stated amounts more often than tablets. Our figures are on the panel and reproduced on this page. If you want the batch testing behind them, ask us and we will tell you what we hold.

Vitamin B12, iron, magnesium, folate and calcium are all absent, because this is a nine-nutrient daily essentials formula rather than an A to Z. B12 is the one worth noting on any plant-based label, and Wellgard sells it separately at a far higher amount than a multivitamin would carry.

It is vegan, pectin-based and gelatine-free, which is more than several of the better known gummies manage. But it carries no B12, which is the nutrient most worth checking on any vegan label, so treat it as vegan-friendly daily essentials rather than the only thing a vegan diet needs covering.

Amounts you can see and a format you will keep taking. A nutrient at 10% of the daily reference intake is a line on a list; one at or near 100% is a dose. Check the percentage column, check the serving size, and check whether you actually want to swallow it every morning for a year.

Nine nutrients per two-gummy serving: vitamin A 600ug RE, vitamin D3 10ug, vitamin E 13.4mg, vitamin C 80mg, niacin 16mg, vitamin B6 1mg, biotin 60ug, iodine 46ug and zinc 10mg. Orange flavour, 60 gummies to a bottle, 30 servings.

Two a day, chewed. The box says chew two gummies daily and do not swallow the gummy whole. Sixty gummies is thirty servings, so a bottle is a month.

Chew them. A pectin gummy relies on chewing to break down, which is why the bottle says not to swallow one whole.

Turn the bottle over and read the percentage column, which is the only part that tells you how much you are actually getting. Then check the serving size, since some are one gummy and some are two, and check whether the nutrients you want are there at all. Everything else on the front is decoration.

Turn any bottle over and read the percentage column. In these, six of the nine nutrients are at 100% of the adult daily reference intake or above: vitamin D at 200%, biotin 120%, vitamin E 112%, and vitamin C, niacin and zinc each at 100%. The other three are vitamin A at 75%, B6 at 71% and iodine at 31%.

10ug per two-gummy serving. That is the amount the NHS advises adults to consider taking daily between October and early March, and it is double the EU reference value, which is why the panel says 200%. A fair number of gummies carry 5ug.

80mg per two-gummy serving, which is 100% of the daily reference intake. Vitamin C contributes to the normal function of the immune system.

10mg per serving, 100% of the daily reference intake, as zinc citrate. Zinc contributes to the maintenance of normal hair, skin and nails.

Biotin contributes to the maintenance of normal hair and normal skin. There is 60ug per serving, which is 120% of the daily reference intake.

46ug per serving, which is 31% of the daily reference intake, as potassium iodide.

Yes. They are made with pectin rather than gelatine and carry vegan, gluten-free, gelatin-free and non-GMO marks on the bottle.

Pectin is a gelling agent from fruit. It sets a gummy the way gelatine does but without an animal ingredient, which is what makes these suitable for vegans. The texture is a chew rather than a bounce.

No artificial colours, flavours or sweeteners. The flavouring is natural orange and the colour comes from black carrot juice concentrate and curcumin, the yellow in turmeric.

Yes. Sucrose and glucose are the first two ingredients, because that is what sets and sweetens a pectin gummy. Each gummy is 5 kcal. If you want the nutrients with no sugar at all, a tablet or capsule is the format to look at, and we would rather say so.

Heat is what does that to any gummy, so store them in a cool dry place below 25 degrees C and out of direct sunlight rather than on a windowsill or next to the kettle.

They are chewed and they contain sugar, so treat them like any sweet thing: take them with or after a meal rather than last thing at night, and do not brush immediately afterwards. If you have fillings or crowns, chew rather than suck.

Orange, from a natural orange flavouring. They are a chew rather than a hard sweet.

Adults. The bottle says Extra Strength Formula for Adults and the serving is two gummies. Wellgard makes a separate Kids Multivitamin Gummies with its own directions, and that is the one to use for children.

The same nine nutrients either way, since this is a general adult formula rather than one built by sex. Wellgard also makes Women Multivit Gummies if you want one designed for that. Compare the panels and pick on the numbers.

Consult your GP if you are pregnant, lactating, taking medication or under medical supervision. Do not exceed the recommended daily intake.

Check the totals if something else you take already carries vitamin A, D, E, C, niacin, B6, biotin, iodine or zinc. Vitamin A in particular is worth totalling up, and if you take any regular medication speak to your GP or pharmacist first.

In a cool dry place below 25 degrees C, out of direct sunlight, and out of sight and reach of children. For Best Before End and batch number, see the bottom of the bottle.

Sixty gummies at two a day is thirty servings, so a bottle is a month.

Chew two the next day as usual. There is nothing to catch up and nothing to double.

In the PRC, using ingredients sourced from around the world, for Wellgard. Bayagan Group Ltd, London.

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