{"id":1018,"date":"2019-03-13T07:44:33","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T07:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=1018"},"modified":"2019-03-18T07:51:52","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T07:51:52","slug":"do-gummy-vitamins-work-heres-what-experts-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=1018","title":{"rendered":"Do Gummy Vitamins Work? Here&#8217;s What Experts Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Gummy vitamins are increasingly popular\u2014and not just for kids. By some estimates, adults now comprise up to 80% of the gummy vitamin market.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPill fatigue\u201d is one-factor driving grownups toward gummies. If you have to take multiple supplements every day\u2014and especially if you have problems swallowing capsules or tablets\u2014gummies can make that chore easier (and tastier), finds a 2017 report from the AARP.<\/p>\n<p>But do gummy vitamins work the same as ordinary supplements?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany companies seem to have trouble controlling the amounts of ingredients in each gummy,\u201d Cooperman says. To solve this problem, he says some gummy makers spray vitamins and nutrients onto the outside of the finished candy\u2014like a coating. There are also \u201cstability problems,\u201d meaning the gummies can lose potency over time. \u201cThis leads some manufacturers to put in a lot more of certain vitamins than labeled to ensure the product provides at least 100% of the labeled amounts throughout its shelf life,\u201d he explains. While that may sound like a good thing\u2014after all, you\u2019re getting more than you paid for\u2014some reports have linked excessive nutrient intakes to health problems, including an elevated risk for some types of cancer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany companies seem to have trouble controlling the amounts of ingredients in each gummy,\u201d Cooperman says. To solve this problem, he says some gummy makers spray vitamins and nutrients onto the outside of the finished candy\u2014like a coating. There are also \u201cstability problems,\u201d meaning the gummies can lose potency over time. \u201cThis leads some manufacturers to put in a lot more of certain vitamins than labeled to ensure the product provides at least 100% of the labeled amounts throughout its shelf life,\u201d he explains. While that may sound like a good thing\u2014after all, you\u2019re getting more than you paid for\u2014some reports have linked excessive nutrient intakes to health problems, including an elevated risk for some types of cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/5549874\/do-gummy-vitamins-work\/\">Time<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gummy vitamins are increasingly popular\u2014and not just for kids. By some estimates, adults now comprise up to 80% of the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-1018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vitamins-supplements","tag-alternative-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions\/1020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}