Few multivitamin products for children supply the recommended dose of 400 IU a day of vitamin D, suggest the results of a survey of 91 different products, published online in the Archives of Disease in Childhood.
Few multivitamin products for children supply the recommended dose of 400 IU a day of vitamin D, suggest the results of a survey of 91 different products, published online in the Archives of Disease in Childhood.
Researchers at the University of Southampton and University of Oxford have revealed supplements containing only vitamin D or labelled specifically ‘for healthy bones’ typically had a higher vitamin D content, although some products ‘for bones’ contained very low levels of the vitamin.
“There is a wide range of both multivitamins and vitamin D supplements available for children in the UK, yet many of these do not provide the recommended 400 IU/day,” said Dr Rebecca Moon, who led the research at the Medical Research Council Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit (MRC LEU), University of Southampton.
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