Liquid
Vitamins Product Reference
Liquid Vitamins Product Reference
(Product Reviews Below)
Our Recommendation:
Because of all of the above reasons, we highly suggest
Vitaplen Complete above all other brands. Of the brands that we
have examined, only Vitaplen Complete has a total of 165 nutrients,
vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and whole food extracts. Try getting
that from your average once a day vitamin, which may only have 20
or 30. Vitaplen Complete goes light years beyond your average “once
a day” single pill multivitamins because you get a more complete
and broad spectrum of ingredients, faster absorption, low cost and
the convenience of delivery right to your mailbox, with no additional
shipping fees.
Here we compare the ingredients of Vitaplen
Complete (our gold standard) against some of the other most
popular brands available.
 A Blue Box
denotes overall category winner.
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Vitaplen
Complete™
|
Centrum®
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Centrum®
Liquid
|
One-a-Day®
Men's
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| Number
of Nutrients |
165 |
33 |
17 |
22 |
| Fruit,
Vegetable, and Enzyme Blend: |
100
mg |
0 mg |
0 mg |
0 mg |
| Coenzyme
CoQ10 Electrolyte Blend: |
100
mg |
0 mg |
0 mg |
3 mg |
| Whole
Food Green Blend: |
250
mg |
0 mg |
0 mg |
0 mg |
| Essential
Fatty Acid Blend: |
50
mg |
0 mg |
0 mg |
0 mg |
| AquaMin™
Trace Minerals Complex: |
10
mg |
0 mg |
0 mg |
0 mg |
| Proprietary
Herbal Combination with Aloe Vera Blend: |
250
mg |
0 mg |
0 mg |
0 mg |
| Botanical
Polyphenols Blend: |
50
mg |
0 mg |
0 mg |
0 mg |
| Calcium
and Magnesium Complex: |
250
mg |
0 mg |
0 mg |
0 mg |
| Vitamin
C |
150
mg |
60 mg |
60 mg |
90 mg |
| Vitamin
E |
30
IU |
30 IU |
30 IU |
45
IU |
| Vitamin
B12 |
50
mcg |
6 mcg |
6 mcg |
18 mcg |
| Calcium |
150
mg |
162
mg |
none |
none |
| Thiamin |
3
mg |
1.5 mg |
1.5 mg |
1.2 mg |
| Riboflavin |
2.12
mg |
1.7 mg |
1.7 mg |
1.7 mg |
| Niacin |
20
mg |
20 mg |
20 mg |
16 mg |
| Vitamin
B6 |
5
mg |
2 mg |
2 mg |
3 mg |
| Folate
(as folic acid) |
400
mcg |
400 mcg |
none |
400 mg |
| Pantothenic
acid |
10
mg |
10 mg |
10 mg |
5 mg |
| Magnesium |
75 mg |
100 mg |
none |
120
mg |
| Vitamin
D |
400
IU |
400 IU |
400 IU |
400 IU |
| Zinc |
15 mg |
15 mg |
3 mg |
15 mg |
| Vitamin
A |
5000
IU |
3500 IU |
2500 IU |
3500 IU |
| Selenium |
70 mcg |
20 mg |
none |
105 mcg |
| Potassium |
45
mg |
80
mg |
none |
100
mg |
| Contains
Overdoseable Iron? |
No |
Yes,
it contains overdosable Iron |
Yes,
it contains overdosable Iron |
No |
| 100%
Vegetarian Formula? |
Yes |
Unknown / Not
Listed |
Unknown / Not
Listed |
Unknown / Not
Listed |
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Overall Results:
Aside from Vitaplen Complete, they were disappointing.
Many of the major manufacturers should take a hard look at their
formulas and consider beefing up the ingredients where they are
falling short. In particular, most formulas should provide you wholesome
nutrition, not just the basic vitamins and minerals. There is additional
room for improvement and we suggest that manufactures consider providing
whole body nutrition rather than just the basic vitamins and minerals.
Commercial Availability:
You can order Vitaplen Complete online at http://www.vitaplen.com/.
They infrequently run special offers for free shipping, so you can
save a little extra there as well.
To Keep in Mind:
By now, you are either taking vitamins for yourself already
or have decided that the benefits of taking your vitamins daily
is the key to a healthy, and more vibrant you. But questions still
remain. What kind of vitamins do I take? What dosages? How many?
Why should I have to pay for dozens of individual vitamins instead
of just taking a single multivitamin? Fortunately, we have searched
long and hard and come up with a solution. We have done this research
for you, so you do not have to spend hundreds of dollars a month
on dozens of different pills that you have to swallow daily. Can
you imagine swallowing as many as 10 or 12 pills a day, just to
get your vitamins? Buying that many vitamins a month could cost
you $200 or more. But read on, you are about to be let in on the
dirty little secret that pills have that almost nobody will tell
you.
You can only put a very small amount of ingredients into a pill.
Why? Think of a pill as if it was a nearly full suitcase. The pill
is the suitcase and the inside is full of clothes and everything
else you need for your trip. The only space left is for the things
you buy when you get where you are going. This is the space available
to put actual active ingredients (such as vitamins) inside the pill.
Everythign else is needed to keep the pill stable (or to get you
where you are going).
Because of this, as much as 80% of a pill can be fillers, binders,
chelating agents and film coatings. In order to get the amount of
vitamins that you can get with a high quality liquid multivitamin,
you would need to take at least 10 pills a day. Why swallow 10 or
more pills a day when you can take as little as half an ounce of
a high potency liquid multivitamin and get more vitamins, minerals,
fruit, vegetable and plant extracts than you could get by taking
dozens of pills? It just doesn’t make sense, but day after day people
take a basic “once a day” multivitamin and believe they are getting
everything they need. I hate to break it to you, but you aren't.
Not only do people not get the vitamins they really need, they
fail to absorb the vitamins they take due to the vitamin being sold
in a solid, pill form and then they get stuck with paying the full
retail price for all of these vitamins because they buy it in a
retail store that has to pay for overhead, employees, a physical
store and more. Why not get all of your vitamins, minerals, antioxidants,
whole food extracts and more, together in one great tasting and
inexpensive product, delivered direct to your door without even
paying for shipping? Oh and what if you could get all of this for
fewer than sixty five cents a day, delivered right to your mailbox?
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