Garden of Life Vitamin Code Kids Multivitamin with Probiotics for Immune Health - Multivitamin with Organic Fruits and Vegetables, Non-GMO, Gluten-Free, 60 Chewable Bears

Firstly, let me start by stating that I know Nestle acquired Garden of Life in 2017. Of course, I enjoy supporting small, family-owned business. However, until I find a better alternative as a chewable vitamin for my toddler, this is in my opinion best offering in the market as mentioned below. My wife breastfed my son until he was 20 months old. Then he became a very picky eater. We know it is a phase and will end sometime in the future, but until then we wanted to supplement his diet with a good quality vitamin. We researched extensively various 'well-regarded' brands for vitamins for children that were not produced with synthetic this and that, that were free of artificial flavors, sweeteners, colorings, etc. And, we found 3 products. One is this one, which is a chewable vitamin. The other is Drucker Labs IntraKid, which is a liquid vitamin. Third is MegaFood's Kids One Daily; this is a vitamin for older kids that can swallow a small tablet as it is 'not' in chewable form. At 20 months, MegaFoods' Kids One Daily was not in our list as our son wouldn't be able to swallow a tablet for quite some time. We bought Drucker Labs IntraKid at first. This is a liquid vitamin, very expensive and suggested for children who are 4 and older (like Garden of Life's Multivitamin). We planned to start with quarter of the suggested dose to our 20 months old son and then increase it to the half of the suggested dose when our son reached 2 years old. IntraKid is full of good stuff, no doubt. However, when you put that much stuff in a liquid vitamin (including Omegas), I don't think there is a flavor in the world that can make it taste good. We tried to inject the liquid with a syringe to his mouth. We tried to mix it with juices, etc. (he would never finish the whole thing, which meant he couldn't get the exact amount). There was simply no way we could make our son drink Intrakid. When we tried it, it was very bad tasting. There is no way I could drink it regularly myself to be honest. Hence, we saw no point buying it again and spending that much money. Then, we tried Garden of Life... Firstly, we both tried it ourselves and loved the taste actually. It is packed with lots of important vitamins, no artificial flavors, colorings and still taste decent. Of course, if a kid or adult was used to taking chewable vitamins with artificial flavors/sweeteners, it would probably be a hard switch. Obviously, this wasn't the case for our son. At 20 months old, we started with half a bear. It breaks easily; you don't need a knife or a cutter. We sat with him and chewed one ourselves. We also observed him for awhile to make sure he didn't choke since he was still under 2. At 2 years old, we increased the amount to a full bear (the serving size is 2 bears for children 4 and older). At 3 years old, we increased the amount to 1.5 bears. At 4, we will give him 2 bears. In addition to this vitamin, we give him fish oil (Nordic Naturals) regularly. Since he is a picky eater, giving him this vitamin along with fish oil gives us a peace of mind. Until our son can swallow a tablet, we will stick to this brand as we couldn't find an alternative chewable vitamin as of 2019. When he can swallow, we plan to switch to MegaFood's Kids One Daily. I will post this review on IntraKid's page as well since it is basically a comparison.

I purchased a small bottle to try out with my kids (4yr and 1 yr) after I had tried Dr Mercola vitamins. Kids liked the mercola vitamins but they were out of stock and could not order, so with preschool starting I needed an alternative for my kids. At first few days it was a chore to get them to take the vitamins but they did-I tried one myself and did not blame them as the taste was not so good. However, after a week, my kids began wanting and asking for their "bear vitamins". They now take them each day (2 tablets for my 4 yr old and 1 tablet for my 1 yr old)! These are the healthiest vitamins you can give your kids because they are from raw, whole, nutrient rich sources. My 4yr old use to have trouble with constipation and we would give her raw milk as that would help tremendously but since on the vitamins the raw milk is no longer needed and she is very regular now. She did get sick 1 time since her preschool started almost 2 months ago at the start of school and start of vitamin implemenation but only minor cold symptoms and only lasted about 4 days. This is a turn to better health for her as she would routinely get sick and last 7 days or longer sick. In fact now that she is in preschool she is being exposed to much more kid contact and germs than ever before and is holding up VERY well. I attribute it to getting a great high quality raw daily vitamin. Her baby sister continues to florish as well given the extra exposure to what sister brings home (although baby sister was already very healthy previtiamins). So based on our results using these vitamins for two months and seeing a vast improvement in our daughters overall health I would highly recommend them to all parents. Also, we don't give out daughters very much sweets at all and only a little bit of juice so maybe that is why it was easier for them to accept the vitamins taste. Lastly, you get a great deal on these via amazons subscribe and save which we signed up for and received our next shipment just before our current bottle was ending! *****UPDATE***** Kids Still going strong with these. Excellent product! Highly recommend!

It tasted horrible. My kids tried it for the first time today and they couldn't finish it. So I decided to try it myself and it was awful. It had a sour taste and bitter at the same time. I can't explain it, but it tasted horrible. I will be going back to renzo vitamins

My 4 year old loves these. She says they taste "very yummy." They're easy for her to chew, and she says they smell good. I like that they are a whole food vitamin, and not synthetic non-sense. I like the Garden of Life brand in general, and I take their Raw Calcium as well as their Raw Prenatal (no joke, it's helped greatly with my fibromyalgia) myself, so my daughter likes that she gets to take her vitamin when mommy takers hers.

My boys 5 and 7 years old love these vitamins. However, my 4 y.o. daughter needed persuading for 1 year before she finally is taking them. Originally my boys didn't want to try them but because they are a light brown/tan color I told them they are chocolate vitamins. From there on they love them and think they are getting a treat every time I give them to them. My daughter finds them alittle hard to bite initially and seems to gag once she puts in her mouth but has gotten better after a couple of weeks. I decided to try them for this review and find them a little sour but overall not bad with no after taste. Taste varies from children so I guess not all kids will like these and gag as my daughter did in the past. They are a bit hard which I find surprising 2 year olds are able to take these as other review posted. My children preferred (loved) other non-organic vitamins in the past but because we try to eat organic foods finding a vitamin which are non-gmo verified and with a majority of its ingredients being organic especially the fruits and vegetables in them is important. These vitamins have 170 mg of organic fruit and vegetable blend plus and added probiotic blend. I purchase on subscribe and save and have found Amazon to be the cheapest price around anywhere from 3 to 4 dollars cheaper than others websites. With three kids taking 6 bears a day one bottle of 60 only last 10 days so that saving is huge for us. Overall these are good vitamins I just wish they 100 percent organic vitamins but price probably would be increased and taste might be effected and pill size might increase since the source of the individual vitamins like vit c would have to come from food source. I would have given five stars if usda organic vitamins. Otherwise a good vitamin I would recommend in you want a non-GMO vitamin with organic fruit and vitamin blend plus probiotics.

I gave these vitamins 3 stars because I like the idea of them: nothing artificial, no dyes, even has probiotics. My problem is my picky eaters (ages 8 and 11) do not like the taste and will not take them. They taste nothing like Flintstone vitamins as other reviewers suggested, probably because the #1 ingredient in Flintstones is sucrose (sugar). I understand it must be difficult to make something healthy and actually taste good, but picky eaters are not going to eat these. I tried them myself and understand why my kids don't like them. Unfortunately, I wasted my money and now have 54 uneaten chewable bears.

So after all my research these vitamins by far were the best as far as nutritional content. Way more 100% than any other vitamins for children and without the artificial junkand the beat price point for the quality!… unfortunately, they made my kids gag. 8 of my 8 kids spit them out. Now I will say, my kids love the sweet gummies and we’re very disappointed. That being said, i personally didn’t think they were bad. They just weren’t like the sweet gummies. If your kids typically eat a more natural diet, they might like these. But mine wouldn’t eat another one… so IM taking them now! Because even the super expensive vitamins couldn’t compete w the nutrition or price point. These are awesome vitamins so they still get 5 stars from me… my kids get 4 stars since they won’t eaT them!

I'm confused by the reviews claiming these do not taste good. I purchased these for my 7 year old, and he loves them. I also tried one myself out of curiosity and thought they taste just fine. They look and taste similar to a Flintstone type vitamin...but WAY better. They are more fruity than their synthetic counterparts; they smell fruity as well. However, if your child is accustomed to the now popular gummy vitamins, which taste much like candy, they may prefer those and perhaps this is the problem. I did not like the gummy vitamins because they are synthetic for the most part, and even my 13 year old tried to get into them once (which is not a good thing) because they taste so much like candy. So if your children like gummy vitamins (and gummy candy), they probably would prefer those over these wonderful vitamins sourced from REAL food. These are one of the most intact whole-food vitamin supplements out there for children. Even others which state whole-food are actually synthetic...with only some food sources on the side, and that's not the same thing, nor is it good.