If you are not getting enough nutrients from your diet, a multivitamin may help. But you need to be sure that it provides the right ingredients for YOU. Just as important, it needs be made right -- containing what it claims, without contaminants. After all, you may be taking it for years.
Unfortunately, in its latest review of multivitamins, ConsumerLab.com found defects in over 30% of the multivitamins that it selected for review. And many products exceeded tolerable upper limits for certain vitamins or minerals. Specific problems found in the multivitamin reviews include:
- Three of four popular children's multivitamins reviewed were too high in vitamin A.
- One men's multivitamin was contaminated with lead and another had too much folic acid -- associated with more than doubling the risk of prostate cancer.
- One general multivitamin had no more than 50% of its folic acid. Another was missing 30% of its calcium.
- A senior's, a prenatal, and a women's multivitamin each had only 44.1%, 44.3%, and 66.1%, respectively, of their vitamin A.
- A vitamin water had 15 times its stated amount of folic acid, so drinking one bottle would exceed the tolerable limit for adults; less than half a bottle would put children over the limit.
- A pet multivitamin was contaminated with lead and another had only 46% of its vitamin A and 54.7% of its calcium.
You must subscribe to get the full test results and ConsumerLab reviews and recommendations. In this comprehensive report covering 53 products, you'll discover:
- Which products failed testing and which passed our multivitamin reviews -- and why.
- Which products exceed tolerable upper limits for certain nutrients
- Head-to-head comparisons and CL approval ratings of all multivitamins reviewed
- Daily intake recommendations by age and gender to find what's best for you
- Concerns and cautions
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