I had surgery on 14 Aug. I am looking for the best/best tasting chewable Vitamins and Calcium. What do you like? and where do you get it?

TIA

Amber

I called my family doctor he sent me out some liquid vitamins. I could not do chewable it made me sick. I just mix it with my juice in the morning. I can't eat in the morning I am too tight. And I will get sick.

I just bought some new ones yesterday. They are chocolate/caramel chews. They taste really good. They are called Viactiv and are a woman's vitamin.

Hi,

I use Centrum Silver Chewables for my multi-Vitamin, not too bad and I can get them down, and I use Viactive chocolate/carmael chewable for my Calcium supplement.

I usually can't tolerate Vitamins but don't have a problem with either of these.

I take 2 flintstones complete each day. I like them and actually look forward to the treat each day

I was taking the flintstones complete chewables up until yesterday when I started taking the Viactiv Chews. Viactiv tastes like candy and are yummy. It was getting to the point where I had trouble taking the flintstones. Just did'nt like the taste.

I use the Kirkland Sugar-free Children's Chewable multi vitamins from Costco. I read the back of the jar and 1 whole vitamin is an adult dose. 1/2 is the child size portion. They are dinosaur shaped and taste great!

im taking childerns gummie vitamans and a viactiv for my calcium. they taste like candy!

I had surgery on 14 Aug. I am looking for the best/best tasting chewable Vitamins and calcium. What do you like? and where do you get it?

TIA

Amber

one a day for women O2. what it is is a powder you drop in to your Water bottle and then shake and drink.

one a day for women O2. what it is is a powder you drop in to your Water bottle and then shake and drink.

I bought the One A Day for women that you mix with water and I thought the taste was horrible.

I bought the One A Day for women that you mix with Water and I thought the taste was horrible.

oh my gosh i bought it and HATED it..

oh my gosh i bought it and HATED it..

I didn't like it either but it was easier to go down my throat.

I also take Viactiv for calcium - a chocolate fix! And I do a liquid vitiam/mineral from GNC. I can't stand the taste of any chewables. At least you can get the liquid down in one quick swallow.

I am a little over 2 months post-op, and have been trying different Vitamins to see which I like best. I currently rotate them.

For multi-vitamins, I use:

GNC Solotron Chewable - 2 tablet. Fruit flavored. Tastes pretty good. Has a high % of vitamins & minerals, often over 100%, which my nutritionist says is not necessary.

Trader Darwin (Trader Joe) High Potency Chewable - Fruit flavored - 1 tablet. I like the taste. Less % on some vitamins/minerals, but usually 100%.

Trader Darwin (Trader Joe) Gummy Multivitamin. Love the taste but missing Biotin, zinc, Iron and other minerals.

For Calcium, I alternate between:

Caltrate 600 D plus - Fruit flavored chewable. I like the taste. Contains calcium citrate, which most surgeons/ nutritionists recommend.

Viactive calcium chews - chocolate or caramel. Yum! Has calcium carbonate, but my nutritionist says I can take either.

GNC Calcium chews - chocolate or caramel. calcium carbonate. Super yum!

All of the above also contain Vit D, which is important to take. However Caltrate has 400 IU, Viactive has 500 IU, and GNC has 100 IU, so if you have a Vit D deficiency, which many people do, you should choose accordingly.

Hope this helps.

Joan

Centrum chewables 2X a day...orange flavored and they're fine (I was allowed these or twice as many of the Flinstones gummis). I take the chocolate flavored Calcium with D&K twice daily as well.

I take the chocolate flavored Viactiv for calcium. For my multivitamin, I take the bariatric advantage brand. Once I go through this bottle I'm going to go back to a pill.

My dietician said after researching for a paper she published, she found that many of the common vitamins, including one-a-days, only had an absorption rate of less than 40%...meaning that you only get 40% or less of the amount of vitamins actually listed. Yikes! She said the bariatric advantage and one other brand that I can't remember showed an absorption rate of 70%. Crazy