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Quest Kids Chewable Multiple Vitamins and Minerals is a superior multivitamin and mineral supplement for children aged 2 to 12 years. This supplement provides a balanced source of vitamins and minerals, including beta-carotene, that are essential to the growth and good health of children. These delicious, sucrose- and aspartame-free tablets can be chewed, sucked, or crushed and mixed with a liquid. The flavours and colours are obtained exclusively from natural sources.
For children for the maintenance of good health.
Children aged 2 to 12 take 2 tablets daily with morning or noon meal.
Each delicious tablet of Quest Kids Chewable Multiple Vitamins and Minerals contains the following:
Nutrient:
Beta-Carotene (Provitamin A) 500 IU
Vitamin A (Palmitate) 2,000 IU
Vitamin D3 200 IU
Vitamin C (Ester-C brand Calcium Ascorbate) 75 mg
Vitamin E (d-alpha-Tocopherol Acetate) 7.5 IU
Vitamin B1 (Thiamine Mononitrate) 1 mg
Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin) 1.5 mg
Niacinamide 5 mg
Pantothenic Acid (d-Calcium Pantothenate) 5 mg
Vitamin B6 (Pyridoxine Hydrochloride) 1 mg
Folic Acid 0.05 mg
Vitamin B12 5 mcg
Biotin 5 mcg
Minerals:
Calcium (Phosphate) 65 mg
Magnesium (Oxide) 32.5 mg
Potassium (Gluconate) 5 mg
Iron (Ferrous Fumarate) 2 mg
Zinc (Oxide) 1 mg
Manganese (Gluconate) 0.5 mg
Copper (Oxide) 0.5 mg
Iodine (Potassium Iodide) 0.05 mg
This product contains no artificial preservatives, colours, flavours, or added sugar, starch, milk products, yeast, gluten, salt, sucrose, or aspartame. Sweetened with dextrose, fructose, sorbitol, and sucralose.
Recommended Daily Allowance:
Dosage for each nutrient in this formula varies, depending on age.
Multivitamin and mineral supplements provide a balanced dose of the basic vitamins and minerals in amounts that pose little or no risk of overdosing on any one nutrient. This formula includes beta-carotene, which confers antioxidant protection on cells.
Beta Carotene: A precursor to vitamin A and an antioxidant.
Vitamin A: Plays a role in our immune system and in the formation of healthy epithelial tissue. An antioxidant, it protects against damage to cells that can lead to cancer.
Vitamin D: Stimulates the absorption of calcium and has anticancer properties.
Vitamin C: An antioxidant and immune-enhancing vitamin.
Vitamin E: Protects the fatty tissues of the body. Protects against toxic substances.
Vitamin B1: Protects against impaired mental function, required for proper energy production in the brain.
Vitamin B2: Needed for tissue repair and for healthy eyes. Important for energy production.
Niacinamide: Also known as vitamin B3, niacinamide functions in the body as a component in the coenzymes NAD and NADP. Plays an important role in energy production; fat, cholesterol, and carbohydrate metabolism; and the manufacture of many body compounds, including sex and adrenal hormones.
Pantothenic Acid: Vital to the healthy functioning of the adrenal glands, which is why pantothenic acid has long been considered an “anti-stress” vitamin.
Vitamin B6: Involved in the metabolism of amino acids and essential fatty acids, and is therefore required for the proper growth and maintenance of all body functions.
Folic Acid: Vital to healthy cell division and replication, especially the lining of the gastrointestinal tract, the skin, and the bone marrow, where blood cells are formed. Also involved as coenzymes for neurotransmitters, and important to the healthy functioning of the immune system.
Vitamin B12: Involved in the production of DNA, red blood cells, and the myelin sheath that surrounds nerve cells and speeds the conduction of signals along nerve cells. For proper absorption of B12, the stomach produces a digestive secretion called intrinsic factor.
Biotin: A B vitamin that is involved in the biosynthesis of fatty acids and energy production.
Calcium: Besides its role in the formation of bones and teeth, calcium is also involved in fat and protein digestion and the production of energy. It is involved in blood clotting and the transmission of nerve impulses, and it regulates the contraction and relaxation of muscles, including the heart.
Magnesium: Besides its role in maintaining healthy bones, magnesium is also involved in maintaining a healthy nervous system. In addition, magnesium is required for muscle relaxation, energy production, protein formation, cellular replication, the regulation of sodium and potassium in the cells, and efficient heart function.
Potassium: The most important dietary electrolyte, potassium functions in the maintenance of water balance and distribution, acid-base balance, muscle and nerve cell function, heart function, and kidney and adrenal function.
Iron: Transports oxygen from the lungs to the body’s tissues and carbon dioxide from the tissues to the lungs. It also functions in several key enzymes in energy production and metabolism, including DNA synthesis.
Zinc: Functions as a cofactor in over 20 enzymatic reactions. Plays a role in insulin activity, protein and DNA synthesis, taste and smell, wound healing, the maintenance of normal vitamin A levels, bone structure, and the immune system.
Manganese: Required for many enzyme systems, normal bone growth and development, and normal reproduction. Also required for the proper functioning of the nerves and possibly the immune system.
Copper: Copper is required for normal infant development, red and white blood cell maturation, iron transport, bone strength, cholesterol metabolism, myocardial contractility, glucose metabolism, brain development, and immune function.
Iodine: Three-quarters of the iodine in the body is found in the thyroid gland, the remainder is found throughout the body, mostly in the fluid that bathes our cells, It is important in the proper functioning of the thyroid gland and is part of the thyroid hormones used to regulate our metabolism, influencing physical and mental growth, the functioning of the nervous system and muscles, circulatory activity, and the metabolism of all nutrients.
Scientific and clinical studies support the efficacy of multivitamin and mineral supplementation for children. Studies have shown that Canadian children are often not getting enough vitamins and minerals from their diet. This creates many problems in a child’s muscular and skeletal development, and it adversely affects their intellectual ability. A UN report on nutrition advises that even obese children can be nutritionally deficient. Inadequate nutrients in childhood can cause poor health throughout life and increase the risk of chronic disease.
This formula is generally safe at the recommended dosage.
Consult a health care professional if the child has a serious illness or is taking any prescription medications.
Many studies indicate that most diets, even healthy ones, fall well below the Recommended Dietary Allowance for many nutrients.
Soy protein and other plant proteins are richer in l-arginine than animal proteins, which are richer in lysine.
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