Supplement Multivitamins Paper Essay

Choosing a multivitamin supplement to a diet can easily be one of the hardest choices to make mainly because there are a lot of choices available in the market. Multivitamin product manufacturers often market and advertise their products using flowery words and cinematic effects. However, what most consumers do not know is that in buying multivitamin products and basically any other product that may alter their health and wellness, the brand raising which is often raised by means of improving advertising points should not be the first thing that they should look for. What they should look for instead should be the ingredients and nutritional components of the multivitamin product they are eyeing to buy. After all, the product rating of the product would not enable their bodies to complete all the nutrients that it needs in order to keep the body at its optimum condition. In this paper, we compare two multivitamin products in terms of their ingredients, their effects, and how they were advertised by their manufacturers.
First on the two-item list would be Rainbow Light Men’s One multivitamin. The following table shows the vitamin and mineral components of this particular supplement product. The manufacturer advertises this product lightly. It only appears on American TV shows and international radio shows every so often. One marketing and advertising advantage of this nutritional supplement product is that it is widely available across most, if not all, supermarkets in majority of the states in the U.S. Based on the supplemental facts below, this vitamin offers the consumers the privilege to take 100% of the recommended daily intake for all vitamins and minerals except for Biotin (50%); Calcium (5%); and Magnesium (6%). All other vitamins and mineral components inside the product are more than enough to support an individual undergoing a 2000 daily calorie diet.

Supplement Facts

Serving Size 1 Tablet
And the last supplement product on the list would be Centrum Multivitamins for Adults. This is one of the most heavily marketed and advertised products in the market. It is popular in Asian and North American markets. The same is true when it comes to its availability on supermarkets and drugstores. The table below shows the ingredients and nutritional value offered by one serving (one tablet) of this product. Compared to Rainbow Light Men’s one multivitamin, this product offers a higher level of vitamin and mineral diversity, after all, this product has been advertised as “complete”. Based on the ingredients and components section, it well appears to be more complete than its rival in this paper.

AMOUNT PER SERVING% DAILY VALUE

Vitamin A 3,500 IU (29% as Beta-Carotene) 70%
Vitamin C 60 mg 100%
Vitamin D 400 IU 100%
Vitamin E 30 IU 100%
Vitamin K 25 mcg 31%
Thiamin 1.5 mg 100%
Riboflavin 1.7 mg 100%
Niacin 20 mg 100%
Vitamin B6  2 mg 100%
Folic Acid 400 mcg 100%
Vitamin B12  6 mcg 100%
Biotin 30 mcg 10%
Pantothenic Acid 10 mg 100%
Calcium 200 mg 20%
Iron 18 mg 100%
Phosphorus 20 mg 2%
Iodine 150 mcg 100%
Magnesium 50 mg 13%
Zinc 11 mg 73%
Selenium 55 mcg 79%
Copper 0.5 mg 25%
Manganese 2.3 mg 115%
Chromium 35 mcg 29%
Molybdenum 45 mcg 60%
Chloride 72 mg 2%
Potassium 80 mg 2%
Boron 75 mcg N/A
Nickel 5 mcg N/A
Silicon 2 mg N/A
Tin 10 mcg N/A
Vanadium 10 mcg N/A
There appears to be a significant difference between the vitamin and mineral components of the two products we reviewed. This might be because of the fact that the first product we reviewed (Rainbow Light) is targeted for the general population whereas the second one (Centrum) was targeted for the adult population. In general, adults have a larger and far more complex nutritional requirement compared to children and adolescents.

Works Cited

Pfizer. "Centrum What's Inside." http://www.centrum.com/whats-inside/products (2015).
Rainbow Light. "Men's One Multivitamin Supplement Facts." http://www.rainbowlight.com/just-once-multivitamins-mens-one-multivitamin.aspx (2015).