Question from Csöbi-Szabó Orsolya
Hi Debra,
I couldn’t find anything about prenatal vitamins on your website. Could you recommend me a good brand?
What do you think about these?
Debra’s Answer
Let’s look at all three.
Realfood Organics is “primarily made from real fruits and vegetables…We source only USDA organic ingredients to share with you” But it also contains maltodextrin (an industrial sweetener) and soy (plus some other ingredients I’m not concerned about.
Rainbow Light has a number of prenatals to choose from. Their Certified Organics Prenatal Multivitamin is made with a “Organic Fruit & Veggie Blend” but also contains nutrients not from whole food sources.
Vitamin Code is basically raw whole foods supplemented with their own
- RAW Food-Created Nutrients that are individually created through microorganism cultivation which typically allows for the natural creation of known and yet to be discovered Code Factors such as live Probiotics, Bioactive Glycoproteins, Bioactive Lipoproteins, Bioactive Enzymes, Glucomannan, SOD, Glutathione, Beta-glucans, Lipoic Acid, Essential Trace Minerals, Glutamine, Polysaccharides and CoQ10
- RAW Food-Chelated Minerals
- AlgaeCal RAW- a raw, certified organic whole food marine algae complex containing 73 naturally occurring minerals and trace elements.
Contains fermented soy.
From my viewpoint, each contains something I wouldn’t take, but may be fine for you. I stay away from maltodextrin, nutrients that are not whole foods, and soy.
Be sure to look at the Supplement Facts to see what it in the supplements.
If I had to choose one of these, I would choose Vitamin Code.
Readers, any suggestions? What prenatal vitamins have you taken?
I look at what form of vitamin B 12 they use to gauge the quality of the supplement
Synthetic vitamin B-12, cyanocobalamin, is made from ground up toxic cow livers and activated sewage sludge. These cow livers are overloaded with steroids and antibiotics, and the pesticides the cow assimilates from eating GMO feed, and these cows are living in CAFO’s (confined animal feeding operations), where they often collapse and die slowly, while lying in their own “sludge” or fecal matter. Synthetic vitamin B also comes from coal tar and petro-chemicals, known to depress the central nervous system and cause respiratory ailments
I haven’t taken this because I’m past childbearing years, but I know someone who took Mega Food Baby and Me Prenatal. There is one with herbs and one without herbs. It says on their website that it is made with 100% whole foods.
Hi Debra, Thank you so much for your help. I highly appreciate your time doing some reserach on prenatal vitamins!
I had to compromised and I have chosen Vitamin Code too. I found two more options:
https://megafood.com/store/en/women-s-health/baby-metm/
http://www.newchapter.com/moms/perfect-prenatal
I can hardly wait to read more opinion of your readers.
Thank you. Orsolya, your old fan from Germany 😉
though I took Vitamin Code Garden of Life during my pregnancy, I started taking Megafood baby and me prenatal while I was breastfeeding and I liked that one more.