Article Analysis: "Ranking: Best Multivitamins in 2016" (updated yearly)

This article can be found here.

CAUTION Analysis: With a little background in science and nutrition, the recommendations do make sense and this is one of the best review articles found to date. While some of the multiples listed are pretty good, such as Naturelo, many have more issues, and others are plain old school and might be detrimental for some consumers. Usually they have a lower score, but not always. Plus, this website lacks credibility from another source.

The top 4 ranked multiple vitamins on their list have links to go directly to the product companies or suppliers, Amazon and Vitacost, that all have affiliate programs meaning this website gets a monetary kick-back when someone so directed orders these products. While the article authors claim to be independent and not associated with any vitamin company, the affiliate programs somewhat calls this independence into question.   Plus, even though they talk about being Scientific, they appear to not be aware of some new vitamin research that questions certain dosages and nutrient forms in few of these "highly" recommended products.

Compromise! The nutrients in question include Folic acid ref, vitamin B6 ref, beta carotene ref, and vitamin D plus some of the formulas are low or missing family nutrients for vitamins E and C. A few also have dosage or form issues of chromium ref and or selenium ref ref ref. One mentions an obvious flaw but then goes on to include the questionable nutrient anyway, glutathione. This being said, their number one multiple pick is really quite good. And formulated by someone with better than par vitamin smarts conerning current science.

The bottom line is this: Even the best multiple supplement needs to be motified or supplemented by changing the serving size number and / or adding other nutrients to correctly complement nutrient group functions.