Nutritionists have two main problems with rubber multivitamins

Finding a multivitamin that provides a truly complete set of vitamins and minerals can be challenging enough as it is – and if you’re looking for sticker A multivitamin that offers a really comprehensive formula, well, you can chase a pot of gold that doesn’t even exist.

“I don’t think multivitamin gums justify the term ‘multivitamin’ because they are so incomplete compared to their capsules, tablets or soft gels,” Ferira said. In fact, she considers incomplete formulas, which either contain ineffective amounts of nutrients or skip them altogether, to be one of the biggest red flags in the multifaceted world – and resinous multivitamins are perhaps the most common culprit.

Part of the reason for this is actually simpler than you might think: in rubber multivitamins, all the nutrients have to be packaged in sugar and either gelatin or pectin, the ingredients that actually turn gum into gum, Ferira explains. This means that there is literally so much room for the nutrients themselves. Minerals, in particular, tend to be bulky nutrients – and as a result are often left out of the glued multivitamins in the name of space, she notes.

And the lack of space is just the beginning of the multifaceted dilemma. Ferira goes on to say that “chewing gum requires heat and this creates real challenges and problems with the stability of many nutrients. In addition, it is simply difficult to hide not so tasty ingredients as individual metallic shades of minerals. Food cakes are more complicated than you would like to think. “

Long and short: Check your panel with facts about supplements and you’ll see that glued multivitamins often lack a bunch of nutrients (especially minerals, vitamin K and the full set of essential B vitamins), so they just don’t provide as complete range of vitamins and minerals that can offer repeatedly packaged in other forms (capsules, soft gels, tablets).

Due to the collective limitations and challenges of this vitamin-meeting-vitamin option, chewy multicutters also lack a bunch of nutrients (especially minerals that can be bulky), so they may not ultimately provide such a full range of vitamins and minerals such as multivitamins that are packaged in other forms, Ferira adds.