Which MultiVitamin Would YOU Choose? Why?

neldabg
neldabg Posts: 1,452 Member
edited December 3 in Food and Nutrition
I'm currently taking Vitafusion's Women's Complete Multivitamin Formula Gummy Vitamins - Bone & Metabolism Support, but I now want something that has all the same vitamins, anything extra, and iron in it too. I'm only considering tablets and gummies. Of these three, which would you choose and why?
1. The Vitamin Shoppe One Daily Womens Multivitamin
http://www.vitaminshoppe.com/p/one-daily-women-multivitamin-60-tablets/vs-3117#.V5duoPmANBc
2. Country Life Core Daily 1 For Women
http://www.vitaminshoppe.com/p/country-life-core-daily-1-for-women-60-tablets/cf-2085#.V5duzvmANBc
3. GNC Women's Ultra Mega® Mini
http://www.gnc.com/GNC-Womens-Ultra-Mega-Mini-NEW-55-SMALLER/product.jsp?productId=22360346#customer-reviews

Other recommendations that don't cost a fortune are greatly appreciated too!

Stats/Background:
20 years old, 5'2" on a good day, maintaining a 108-114lb range. I strength train 2-3 times a week and walking is my main form of cardio. I often do mini-workout videos from YouTube, and I stretch daily. I do have a physically demanding part-time job right now, but I leave for school again in August, so it's not a permanent thing.
Also, I started taking a Triple Strength Glucosamine Chondroitin MSM Tablet for joint support since I began strength training, just in case.

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  • littlechiaseed
    littlechiaseed Posts: 489 Member
    I'd just get a more generic one since if it has extra of some vitamins you just pee it out. I take a women's prenatal and sub-lingual b12 and vegan DHA. I have taken the GNC women's ultra mega (not the mini), it was okay, but I didn't notice any difference really. Ideally, a vitamin should supplement or cover your bases of what you aren't getting from your diet. I don't eat fish or meat so thats why I take what I do to cover any iron, b12 or DHA that Im not getting in my diet.
  • neldabg
    neldabg Posts: 1,452 Member
    littlechiaseed wrote: »
    I'd just get a more generic one since if it has extra of some vitamins you just pee it out. I take a women's prenatal and sub-lingual b12 and vegan DHA. I have taken the GNC women's ultra mega (not the mini), it was okay, but I didn't notice any difference really. Ideally, a vitamin should supplement or cover your bases of what you aren't getting from your diet. I don't eat fish or meat so thats why I take what I do to cover any iron, b12 or DHA that Im not getting in my diet.

    Indeed. I did read myself that our bodies will just get rid of what's not used, but I like to take a multivitamin anyways to make sure as many gaps are filled as possible. Thanks for your input though. :)
  • MelaniaTrump
    MelaniaTrump Posts: 2,694 Member
    edited July 2016
    Consumer reports has done tests. Pretty much a more expensive vitamin is the same as the walmart brand vitamin. Easy google search to find these reports.
    If anything I would not take the gummies. They often lack many minerals (just include vitamins). And cost 4 times as much.
  • grinning_chick
    grinning_chick Posts: 765 Member
    edited July 2016
    If you have no documented deficiencies you are trying to correct, all you're doing is contributing your fair share to a multi-billion dollar industry based on nothing more substantial than hopes and dreams for the vast majority of people opening their wallets to it.

    If I can't convince you in a single post from a single stranger on the interwebz to spend some time researching and reading scientific papers regarding vitamin/mineral supplementation, then I would recommend you take the multivitamin that is closest to % DV for each ingredient without going over. No one, and I mean no one, needs 1,667% DV of B-12 every day (*cough*CountryLifeAndILoveOtherCountryLifeProducts*cough)*. Or B-1 so high their urine is highlighter yellow from micturating out all that unneeded and therefore excreted excess.

    The % DV's are so far off from reality for the (Ye Olde) VitaminShoppe multivitamin you linked as to be frighteningly laughable. For example, 5,000 IU of Vitamin A is 100% of your DV not the listed 1%.

    I know nothing about GNC other than a vague notion to stay far away from that company due to misleading consumers and labeling issues and, no, I cannot provide any backup to that remembered impression off the top of my head.

    A good example of what I would take if I weren't already happy with my own current, carefully researched, supplement regime to correct multiple documented deficiencies (and I can't wait to get off most, if possible) would be 1/2 a tab of Centrum Chewables Adult once or twice a day like here: http://www.vitacost.com/centrum-chewables-adults-multivitamin-and-multimineral-supplement

    Note: I am not endorsing VitaCost. I just like their website because it reliably lists accurate product labels and so use it all the time for that.
  • JeffreyBurkhalter
    JeffreyBurkhalter Posts: 67 Member
    MelaniaTrump wrote: »
    Consumer reports has done tests. Pretty much a more expensive vitamin is the same as the walmart brand vitamin. Easy google search to find these reports.
    If anything I would not take the gummies. They often lack many minerals (just include vitamins). And cost 4 times as much.
    MelaniaTrump wrote: »
    Consumer reports has done tests. Pretty much a more expensive vitamin is the same as the walmart brand vitamin. Easy google search to find these reports.
    If anything I would not take the gummies. They often lack many minerals (just include vitamins). And cost 4 times as much.

    Me too. I have some Publix brand vitamins and some centrum in the medicine cabinet. I take whichever I find first.
  • kingrat2014
    kingrat2014 Posts: 51 Member
    Pure Vitamin Club Daily Multicap. It has 13 essential vitamins with 11 key minerals with no fillers and no additives. The only other ingredient is the vegetable capsule from cellulose. I take it because I can take with or without the capsule, I do not piss it out and I can tell a big difference in my skin, hair and overall health.
  • cityruss
    cityruss Posts: 2,493 Member
    The cheapest.
  • berolcolour
    berolcolour Posts: 140 Member
    I like multibionta - it has probiotics. I completely agree that vitamins make expensive pee but whenever I have taken them consistently I don't get colds! Anecdotal, study of 1.

    I also take an extra calcium because I don't eat much dairy and women have a limited window of absorbing and storing calcium (which I'm past, but I can hope!)
  • CooCooPuff
    CooCooPuff Posts: 4,374 Member
    I take Your Life Multi Prenatal because it was on sale when I need more.
  • FunkyTobias
    FunkyTobias Posts: 1,776 Member
    grinning_chick wrote: »
    If you have no documented deficiencies you are trying to correct, all you're doing is contributing your fair share to a multi-billion dollar industry based on nothing more substantial than hopes and dreams for the vast majority of people opening their wallets to it.

    If I can't convince you in a single post from a single stranger on the interwebz to spend some time researching and reading scientific papers regarding vitamin/mineral supplementation, then I would recommend you take the multivitamin that is closest to % DV for each ingredient without going over. No one, and I mean no one, needs 1,667% DV of B-12 every day (*cough*CountryLifeAndILoveOtherCountryLifeProducts*cough)*. Or B-1 so high their urine is highlighter yellow from micturating out all that unneeded and therefore excreted excess.

    The % DV's are so far off from reality for the (Ye Olde) VitaminShoppe multivitamin you linked as to be frighteningly laughable. For example, 5,000 IU of Vitamin A is 100% of your DV not the listed 1%.

    I know nothing about GNC other than a vague notion to stay far away from that company due to misleading consumers and labeling issues and, no, I cannot provide any backup to that remembered impression off the top of my head.

    A good example of what I would take if I weren't already happy with my own current, carefully researched, supplement regime to correct multiple documented deficiencies (and I can't wait to get off most, if possible) would be 1/2 a tab of Centrum Chewables Adult once or twice a day like here: http://www.vitacost.com/centrum-chewables-adults-multivitamin-and-multimineral-supplement

    Note: I am not endorsing VitaCost. I just like their website because it reliably lists accurate product labels and so use it all the time for that.

    This. Unless you have a specific deficiency, routine supplementation is worthless

    https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/more-evidence-that-routine-multivitamin-use-should-be-avoided/
  • dragon_girl26
    dragon_girl26 Posts: 2,187 Member
    The one that is cheapest, and doesn't make you nauseous. Sometimes the stores have packet samples to try..
  • socalrunner59
    socalrunner59 Posts: 149 Member
    MegaFoods Multi for Women 40+
    Derived from food, not chemicals
    Since it's food based, you can take it on an empty stomach without getting sick
    I gave a bottle of the men's multivitamin to a friend who complained about nausea from his vitamin. He didn't believe me when I told him MegaFoods won't make him sick. After a couple of weeks he called to thank me and said he had been taking it on an empty stomach with no issues.

    Only drawback is its pricy. So I always watch for sales at Vitamin Shoppe, Whole Foods, and Sprouts
  • arditarose
    arditarose Posts: 15,573 Member
    socalrunner59 wrote: »
    MegaFoods Multi for Women 40+
    Derived from food, not chemicals
    Since it's food based, you can take it on an empty stomach without getting sick
    I gave a bottle of the men's multivitamin to a friend who complained about nausea from his vitamin. He didn't believe me when I told him MegaFoods won't make him sick. After a couple of weeks he called to thank me and said he had been taking it on an empty stomach with no issues.

    Only drawback is its pricy. So I always watch for sales at Vitamin Shoppe, Whole Foods, and Sprouts

    +1 on MegaFoods. Solid brand.
  • neldabg
    neldabg Posts: 1,452 Member
    edited August 2016
    Thank you so much for all of the recommendations everyone! :)
    arditarose wrote: »
    socalrunner59 wrote: »
    MegaFoods Multi for Women 40+
    Derived from food, not chemicals
    Since it's food based, you can take it on an empty stomach without getting sick
    I gave a bottle of the men's multivitamin to a friend who complained about nausea from his vitamin. He didn't believe me when I told him MegaFoods won't make him sick. After a couple of weeks he called to thank me and said he had been taking it on an empty stomach with no issues.

    Only drawback is its pricy. So I always watch for sales at Vitamin Shoppe, Whole Foods, and Sprouts

    +1 on MegaFoods. Solid brand.

    Mega Foods definitely looked great, but the price made me think twice, and I couldn't find any current sales with any of those stores or anywhere else online. Then, I read reviews of an awful taste, so that made me opt out of it.
    kingrat2014 wrote: »
    Pure Vitamin Club Daily Multicap. It has 13 essential vitamins with 11 key minerals with no fillers and no additives. The only other ingredient is the vegetable capsule from cellulose. I take it because I can take with or without the capsule, I do not piss it out and I can tell a big difference in my skin, hair and overall health.
    berolcolour wrote: »
    I like multibionta - it has probiotics. I completely agree that vitamins make expensive pee but whenever I have taken them consistently I don't get colds! Anecdotal, study of 1.

    I also take an extra calcium because I don't eat much dairy and women have a limited window of absorbing and storing calcium (which I'm past, but I can hope!)

    Pure Vitamin Club Daily Multicap was too expensive for my liking, and Multibionta is not found in stores where I live in the U.S, so it's not very convenient. Thanks for replying though! ^^
    FunkyTobias wrote: »
    grinning_chick wrote: »
    If you have no documented deficiencies you are trying to correct, all you're doing is contributing your fair share to a multi-billion dollar industry based on nothing more substantial than hopes and dreams for the vast majority of people opening their wallets to it.

    If I can't convince you in a single post from a single stranger on the interwebz to spend some time researching and reading scientific papers regarding vitamin/mineral supplementation, then I would recommend you take the multivitamin that is closest to % DV for each ingredient without going over. No one, and I mean no one, needs 1,667% DV of B-12 every day (*cough*CountryLifeAndILoveOtherCountryLifeProducts*cough)*. Or B-1 so high their urine is highlighter yellow from micturating out all that unneeded and therefore excreted excess.

    The % DV's are so far off from reality for the (Ye Olde) VitaminShoppe multivitamin you linked as to be frighteningly laughable. For example, 5,000 IU of Vitamin A is 100% of your DV not the listed 1%.

    I know nothing about GNC other than a vague notion to stay far away from that company due to misleading consumers and labeling issues and, no, I cannot provide any backup to that remembered impression off the top of my head.

    A good example of what I would take if I weren't already happy with my own current, carefully researched, supplement regime to correct multiple documented deficiencies (and I can't wait to get off most, if possible) would be 1/2 a tab of Centrum Chewables Adult once or twice a day like here: http://www.vitacost.com/centrum-chewables-adults-multivitamin-and-multimineral-supplement

    Note: I am not endorsing VitaCost. I just like their website because it reliably lists accurate product labels and so use it all the time for that.

    This. Unless you have a specific deficiency, routine supplementation is worthless

    https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/more-evidence-that-routine-multivitamin-use-should-be-avoided/

    Thanks for that link! I ended up reading some of the other articles there. The one about fat leaving the body as water and CO2 was especially interesting. With that reminder and with the recommendations to go with what's affordable, I decided to go with the exact bottle of Centrum Adult Chewables recommended by @grinning_chick. They don't taste as great as the gummies I've been taking, but they aren't horrible either, so I'm satisfied. My only gripe with them is the level of Biotin. I think I'll just take a biotin dose once a week to make up for it and see the results from there.



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