Nature's Plus - Animal Parade Cherry/Orange/Grape, 180 chewable tablets

by Nature's Plus

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Product Description

Delicious Natural Fruity Flavors! Source of Life® Animal Parade® children's formula supplies the protection and nutritional assurance all parents seek for their children, along with the great taste and animal shapes that kids love. Each chewable tablet supplies 16 vitamins and 8 minerals, as well as nature's most healthful whole foods, including spirulina, carrot, broccoli, whole brown rice and spinach. Combining the natural goodness of whole foods with a balanced profile of nutrients is what makes Animal Parade a complete dietary supplement formulated for your child. Supplement Facts Ingredient  Amount  % Daily Value 

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 4 x 4 x 6 inches ; 12 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B00012NGZI
• UPC: 097467299825
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (77 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,468 in Health & Personal Care (See Top 100 in Health & Personal Care)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

93 of 100 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Every natural living thing has lead in it...Especially vegetables February 24, 2011

By J. D. Gutierrez

So I did buy this for my daughter. Great product but it is not as good as there gold version which has better and more vitamins and minerals. The amount of lead does not scare me. Everything we eat has lead unless it was made in a lab and you took out the lead. You'd have to build it from the ground up as well. (E.G Synthetic oil, lab made vitamins)

Also the benefits literally outweight the risks since some of the vitamins/minerals in this product actually increases your body ability to absorb less lead by increasing your lead tolerance.

So here is a comment I posted on people crying about the lead in this. Please do read it. Especially you organic and natural food lovers.

""""This is pretty dumb. lead is in virtually every natural growing thing hence why the Multivitamins that had the least were the ones that were lab-made vitamins or were not as potent as animal parade. More Potent (natural-made) = more lead.

Now the dietary tolerable amount for children ages 6 and under is 6 MICROGRAMS got it?
That means that the body is able to get rid of it easily and thus no effect. What does this mean you ask? It means that even the Animal Parade Shake had 2.88 MICROGRAMS (Animal Parade Vitamins had 0.623 MCG, less than a microgram). Why am I capitalizing the micrograms? Because well a microgram is one millionth of a gram.

Food Highest Amount of Lead in a 4 Ounce (1/2 cup) Serving
Shrimp, boiled 23.8 mcg
Italian salad dressing 12.2 mcg
Mixed nuts, no peanuts, roasted 10.2 mcg
Liver, beef, fried 9.0 mcg
Brussels sprouts, fresh, boiled 7.9 mcg
Sweet potato, fresh, baked 7.2 mcg
Spinach, boiled 7.0 mcg
Dry table wine 6.8 mcg
Avocado, raw 4.5 mcg
Honey 4.5 mcg
Watermelon, raw 4.5 mcg
Raisin bran cereal 4.1 mcg
Raisins, dried 3.5 mcg
Cottage cheese 4% milk fat 3.4 mcg
Cucumber, Raw 3.4 mcg
Peach, raw 3.4 mcg
Granola cereal 3.0 mcg
Shredded wheat cereal 3.0 mcg
Whole wheat bread 2.8 mcg
Onions, mature, raw 2.7 mcg
Apple, red, raw 2.6 mcg
Green peas, boiled 2.2 mcg
Lima beans, boiled 2.2 mcg
Strawberries, raw 2.0 mcg
Eggs, boiled 1.5 mcg
Whole milk 1.2 mcg

Lead is in almost everything and is present in vegetables more than meat due to the plants abilty to absorb more lead through the air and soil. It is a byproduct in the air we breathe. The known health effects take place around 60 MCG for a child under 6 and yet it is over a period of time.

YOU'RE WELCOME! """

I don't work for this company or anything like that, but these are great vitamins for my child. I was just as worried as anyone else when I heard the news. Im a responsible parent and person so I looked at information everywhere. I can't even imagine how much of this you would have to ingest to get any side effect of lead poisoning. Do the math, do your own research. Be smart parents for these are your kids. Lead is in the air we breathe, so are you going to turn your child into bubble boy?

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars best tasting vitamins April 14, 2010

By M. Hintz

One of my children has an allgery to red dye #40. All children's vitamins at local drug stores ALL have red dye #40. These don't and all my children LOVE them.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars My kid actually will take these! December 10, 2010

By Stuff

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These chewable vitamins have been endorsed by my kid -- one of the fussiest, most texture- and taste-sensitive children around. I wanted a chewable (she can't swallow vitamins) without poisonous aspartame, and finally found this one. They are tasty and easy to chew, and I am pleased that she is getting supplements.

I have done some research on the lead issue and am satisfied that these are safe. It turns out that any vitamin containing natural minerals will have trace amounts of lead, due to its naturally occurring in organic materials. The lead is NOT added to the vitamin, it is in the foods used to make the vitamin. You would also get trace amounts of lead in natural foods of any sort. These tiny levels are small enough that they can be excreted safely from the body. There is no comparison to these minute quantities and the massive amounts of lead you would get from paint chips or dust.