Supplements or Medicines?

I take several supplements daily to maintain health, multivitamins, bilberry, calcium, and Cordyceps. Since I cannot swallow the big tablets, I have to go with the small caplets and capsules. For each supplement, the daily dose varies from 3 to 6 caplets/capsules per day. So each day, I have to swallow more than a dozen supplements.

I often wonder, have the vitamin manufacturers think of the customers when they develop their products? The once-a-day pills are so big that you can choke to death. So they make the easy to swallow caplets but you need to take many of them each day. Having supplements is like taking medicine. Even worse, most supplements are much bigger in size and have an after-taste. So why don’t the manufacturers make something delicious? How about fruit drinks that can provide all the vitamins, minerals and antioxidants? Or chewables that taste good? Or tasty powder that can be mixed or sprinkled on food?

There are some gummy supplements for children but hardly any for adults. Do the manufacturers think that adults don’t care about taste and will swallow anything they make?

Recently, my friend told me she found a multivitamin chewable that is tasty like candy. It is called VitaFusion gummy vitamins for adults. The ingredients are simpler than most other multivitamin pills. It contains vitamins A, B, C, D, E but lacks the important minerals like zinc and selenium. When I tried it myself, the gummies are indeed very tasty, not too sweet or too sour. VitaFusion’s commercial says it is the first gummy vitamins for adults.

Another good thing is it is also cheap (Costco sells it for $9.99 for 200 gummies). The recommended dose is 2 gummies per day, so one large bottle can last for 3 months. Unfortunately, if you live outside the U.S., you will have a hard time finding it. Popular online shops like vitamin shoppe, iherb don’t carry it. Drugstore only has the small bottle and their international shipping rate is too high.

I’ve also found a liquid calcium supplement that is quite acceptable. It is Life Time, Liquid Calcium Magnesium Citrate. The product comes in several flavors and I have only tried the blueberry flavor. The blueberry taste pretty much covers the chalky taste often found in calcium supplements. I think it is much better than swallowing calcium pills. They also have orange vanilla, grape, strawberry, pina colada and lemon custard flavors. This liquid calcium supplement is available in many online stores.

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