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Children and Vitamins

What should you look for in a multivitamin?

Avoid gummy or candy vitamins. Daily candy is not a lesson kids need to learn, and it can be a hard habit to break. It's essential that you read labels. Many popular brands contain additives such as: hydrogenated vegetable oil, chemical dyes FD&C Blue #2 Lake, FD&C Red #40 Aluminum Lake, FD&C Yellow #6 Aluminum Lake, artificial flavors, aspartame, sugar, butylated hydroxytoluene (this preservative is a suspected carcinogen banned in all foods in Japan and Australia, and in baby foods in the U.S.), carrageenan, gelatin, and pregelatinized starch.

Start at your local health food store and ask for help selecting the best multivitamin for your child. Make sure the vitamin contains 50 to 100 percent of the daily recommended value of each of the Greene 13. If you can't find everything in one package, you may have to buy an additional supplement for a few of these missing nutrients or just make extra sure they are in your child's diet.

Meet our expert:

Alan Greene, M.D. is a graduate of Princeton University and the University of California San Francisco and is the founder of DrGreene.com. He is also the Chief Medical Officer of A.D.A.M., the Pediatric Expert for WebMD, the Chair Elect of the Organic Center and is on the Advisory Board of Healthy Child Healthy World. The author of Raising Baby Green, Dr. Greene is also a popular media personality and has appeared on The Today Show, and been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Parents, and US Weekly. Dr. Greene is a practicing pediatrician at Stanford University's Packard Children's Hospital.