Children’s Vitamins: Good for kids - or just more candy?

October 1st, 2008

What every parent should know before buying children’s multivitamins
Most kid’s supplements are loaded with colorings, dyes and sweeteners with very low potency vitamins. Unfortunately, our kid’s get enough sugar, flavorings and additives in their diet as it is … don’t give them even more in their vitamins!

ALL ONE Kid’s is the ONLY additive free, sweetener free, color free supplement for kids.

Children’s vitamins should NOT be candy:
They’re colorful, chewy, and come in fun shapes like elephants, dinosaurs, and cartoon characters.  But unfortunately they are flavored and sweetened to taste just like candy.

Many children’s vitamins taste like candy because they basically are candy. They contain many ingredients that are found in most sweets. The ingredients of one gummy type vitamin included the following -glucose syrup, sucrose, gelatin and magnesium stearate. The traditional Gummi Bear candy is made from sugar, glucose syrup, starch, flavoring, food coloring and gelatin. Other common ingredients used in chewable vitamins are fructose, sorbitol, and cherry flavoring,

Many so-called ‘children’s vitamins’ contain only tiny amounts of actual nutrients, and some brands entirely omit the vitamins that growing kids need the most.

Most children’s supplements contain vitamins only.  No minerals (though some do) and no amino acids (the building blocks of protein).  To be ‘complete’ they should have vitamins, minerals and amino acids.

Fillers and colorings – less is better – NONE is Best!
Children can sometimes have allergic reaction to the additives put in their vitamin pills.  Parents should look for “hypo-allergenic” brands that contain no colorings or flavorings.

The Feingold Association has long recommended that parents of children who suffer from learning difficulties, ADHD or Autism avoid artificial sweeteners, flavorings, colors and preservatives as these appear to aggravate their conditions. They say most ADHD problems come from the very same colorings, dyes, sweeteners and additives that are found in most kid’s supplements!
The ALL ONE Kid’s contains NO sweeteners, colorings or additives and is one of the few children’s supplements approved by the Feingold Association.

Don’t compromise when it comes to your child’s nutrition.
ALL ONE Kid’s offers a welcome alternative to many of the candy-like supplements currently available. ALL ONE Kids is the ONLY additive free, sweetener free, color free supplement for kids. It is gluten, yeast, soy and dairy free. And is truly a complete nutritional supplement supplying essential amino acids, as well as vitamins and minerals in appropriate amounts. This vegan formula is also versatile as it can be mixed in rice milk, or juice, even stirred into yogurt or applesauce. ALL ONE Kids makes a great smoothie too!  With so many fun options your kids will actually enjoy taking their vitamins every day.

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