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The Truth about Gummy Vitamins

There is a new fad developing in the supplement industry to allow multivitamins to become more accessible to the masses...and who doesn't like gummy candies?

Combining the two seems to be a brilliant way to make people actually enjoy taking their vitamins. I can't imagine having to discipline myself to remember to take my candy each day. In theory, I was all over this idea.

Dream vs. Reality
In truth, it is extremely difficult to make useful doses of any vitamin mix taste particularly delicious, especially in a small enough form to be palatable (aka to fit in your mouth). Once you take into account the amount of space taken up by sugar and gelatin, each gummy ends up with a very small nutritional content. On top of that, the first ingredient on the ingredients list of almost all of these vitamin gummies is some form of sugar (glucose, corn syrop, natural cane juice), and often several different forms in a row! Since ingredients are listed in order by amount, this means that the main ingredient in all gummies is, in fact, sugar. Not the top of our "nutritious substances" list. For an idea of the problems caused by excess sugar in the diet, please see our Sugar article.

Targeting Children
Unfortunately, gummy vitamins are often targeted at children and parents as great additions to a healthy diet to improve nutritional status. Unfortunately, with the amount of vitamin in each gummy, the required dose can be much higher than that listed on the bottle in order to compare with chewable children's vitamins. In some cases, up to 20 gummies would be required for common nutrients like Vitamin B1. At the same time, eating that many gummies would give your child a mega dose of unnecessary sugar. Often each gummy will contain around 2g of sugar, which is the equivalent of approximately a tsp. Needless to say, feeding your children gummy vitamins will have a similar effect as feeding them candy on behavioral and attention problems.

About MegaFood

Our Men's Health Category offers men a range of age-specific products to suit the nutritional needs and challenges throughout their life. Our whole food multi-vitamin and mineral formulas can be safely combined with any MegaFood product. Choose from our selection - both with or without organic herbs and nourishing concentrated whole foods - to create your own well-rounded whole food supplement program.

MegaFood is a pioneer in the natural products industry, being the first company to make vitamins from scratch, with farm fresh whole foods. For 40 years, we have been making wholesome nutritional supplements that deliver the promise of farm fresh foods. All of us at MegaFood are committed to producing the most authentic nourishment possible, and are dedicated to improving the lives of others with the products we make.

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MegaFood has made whole food supplements for 40 years and we take great pride in knowing we deliver the promise of farm fresh foods to you in every product we make. Doing this is not easy, yet we believe farm fresh whole foods are the best way to deliver authentic nourishment and not just vitamins and minerals alone.

To make dietary supplements that provide the most authentic nourishment possible, we first begin with sourcing fruits, vegetables and whole grains from our Farm Fresh Farm Partners throughout the United States and Canada. We work with family-owned farmers known for their commitment to grow with care and ethical farming practices. Each season we receive freshly harvested foods right at our back door, where they are then rigorously examined for quality, prior to beginning their journey through our privately-owned facility and one-of-kind Slo-Food Process.

To retain the freshness of the foods we source from the farm to each tablet we produce, our Slo-Food Process was designed to be slow and gentle. This means we do not expose the foods to damaging temperatures that diminish the foods nutritional value, nor destroy any of the colorful aromatic compounds that give a freshly harvested food its color, taste and nutritional punch! By preserving freshness of the foods we source, we believe it makes all the difference in our products and your health.