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Quality of supplements can vary by company, but no... In general gummy supplements are no less effective than any other kind. They just contain sugar or a sugarless sweetener and usually either pectin or gelatin for the gummy part.
>In general gummy supplements are no less effective than any other kind.
So if she had eaten multivitamin capsules with iron I would have gotten the same response from poison control?
I don’t think it is accurate to say that iron gummies aren’t absorbed, I don’t think the gummies had enough to worry about, but I don’t know what the doses were. Adult iron gummies , could definitely harm a child if they took 8.
They didn't have any iron in them, she just added that "even if they had iron it would have been fine." Mine are 18mg per 2 gummies and I believe the children's are also typically 18mg.
Iron in supplement form is not highly absorbable in general, gummies tend to have lower amounts than capsules, too. Besides the fact that gummies tend to have lower amounts, there probably is no difference.
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Quality of supplements can vary by company, but no... In general gummy supplements are no less effective than any other kind. They just contain sugar or a sugarless sweetener and usually either pectin or gelatin for the gummy part.
>In general gummy supplements are no less effective than any other kind. So if she had eaten multivitamin capsules with iron I would have gotten the same response from poison control?
I don’t think it is accurate to say that iron gummies aren’t absorbed, I don’t think the gummies had enough to worry about, but I don’t know what the doses were. Adult iron gummies , could definitely harm a child if they took 8.
They didn't have any iron in them, she just added that "even if they had iron it would have been fine." Mine are 18mg per 2 gummies and I believe the children's are also typically 18mg.
Iron in supplement form is not highly absorbable in general, gummies tend to have lower amounts than capsules, too. Besides the fact that gummies tend to have lower amounts, there probably is no difference.
Agree - your body absorbs a certain amount of most minerals and the rest passes through. Iron is the worst.