Sugar-Coated Children’s Vitamins
Channel: Daily Insight
Date: 2019-11-16

Apparently, we’ve reached a point in human history where expensive lollies parading as vitamins is a thing. My wife bought some just the other day to give to our children. To be fair to her, they were on special at less than half-price, and English isn’t her first language, so I can understand the confusion. “Vita Gummies, Multi-Vitamin + Vegies”. They look like a small pile of sugar. Of course, my children love them, which I personally think is a huge problem. If they ever got hold of them when I’m not around, they would almost certainly feast upon them consuming an uncontrolled amount of supplemental nutrients in the process. The only hint that they contain ANY sugar is this little two-word phrase hidden on the back — “Contains sugars”. There’s no other evidence apart from the pile of sugar coated on the outside of each gummy. Every other product in Australia has to show their sugar content. Apparently vitamins are exempt from this. These so-called vitamins claim to contain veggies. Looking on the back, we can see that there are 5mg each of spinach, carrot, beetroot, and artichoke. Remembering what 5mg is — 1/200th of a gram. I mean, what is that? According to Google, the average pea weighs between 100 and 360 milligrams. That means that a single solitary pea has about 10 times as many vegetables in it than does one of these vita gummies! Even vegetable-flavoured stock cubes that I picked up from Aldi have more vegetables in them. Maybe you should be feeding your children stock cubes instead? I’m sure they would be a lot healthier. If my sarcasm wasn’t glaringly obvious, whatever you do, please don’t feed your children stock cubes, and certainly while you’re at it, you probably shouldn’t be feeding them Vita Gummies either. Now I guess it’s time for me to go and prepare for the incoming lawsuit.

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