The Top 4 Vegan Multivitamins to Supercharge Your Health in 2023
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As we all know, men and women need the same essential 13 vitamins and minerals for overall health, but women tend to be low in certain nutrients. This is why it’s important to consider those differences when choosing a multivitamin formula.
In this article, we’ll go over the 4 best vegan multivitamin formulas for women, and help you determine which one is the best for your needs.
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Ritual’s Essential Multivitamin For Women
Ritual’s goal was pretty simple — to create multivitamins that target common nutritional gaps using high-quality ingredients that can be optimally absorbed. Unlike most brands, Ritual has a variety of multivitamin formulas, and the reason for that is that they want to target young and old, as well as adjust to differences between men and women.
For women, they have four multivitamins — one for women over 18, one for women over 50, and also formulas that support women during pregnancy and the lactation stage.
Given their multi-variate approach to multivitamins, you have options that better suit your circumstances, allowing you, as a woman, to select the more effective nutrient profile for your specific needs.
There are certain nutrients that are usually present in every variation, namely vitamin B12, vitamin D3, iron, folate, magnesium, and omega-3 DHA. These are essential nutrients that vegans require, but they are either tweaked or removed depending on your age or situation.
For instance, older postmenopausal women no longer have a need for supplementing iron, so Ritual’s multivitamin for older women is without it. However, because with age your body slowly loses its ability to efficiently absorb certain nutrients, this multivitamin contains double the amount of vitamin B12 and magnesium.
As a vegan, what we also like about Ritual as a brand, is its dedication to being transparent and willing to let you trace the ingredients back to their source, promoting a more ethical framework for consuming supplements. However, the fact that you have such specific formulas and the ingredients are sourced ethically, means that we have to inevitably pay a higher price for their products. Additionally, purchasing one of their multivitamins, means you’re consenting to a subscription model that will get you a multivitamin delivered to your doorstep every month, and that might be a deal breaker for many people. Although, you can easily cancel the service after receiving your first product.
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Performance Lab Multi For Women
Performance Lab is one of the few brands that create supplements that differentiate between the dietary needs of men and women, so they have two distinct formulas. The Multi for Women is a formula that contains specific nutrients that address women’s nutritional needs, so apart from containing vitamin B12 and vitamin D, it also contains minerals such as iron, calcium, folate, and iodine.
This multivitamin contains 26 active ingredients and among them are vitamins, minerals, as well as other natural compounds that support both mood and metabolism. It contains generous amounts of iron (44% of WDV), calcium (2% of WDV), folate (334% of WDV), and iodine (100% of WDV), so it’s quite specific for women.
Performance Lab is popular for its ultra-modern method of designing supplements for peak health and performance called Nutrigenesis. The ingredients in this formula are lab-grown, using a patented process that mimics nutrient genesis in nature, increasing the absorption of nutrients and their effects.
Needless to say, this formula is vegan-friendly, and it features a clean-label formula, stripped
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Healthycell Vegan Essentials
Even though Healthycell isn't a vegan brand, they've developed a liquid formula that specifically caters to vegans.
This multivitamin contains over 30 vitamins and minerals, including crucial nutrients like vitamin B12, vitamin D3, iron, iodine, and Omega-3 Fatty Acids. Healthycell uses Microgel technology, which helps your body absorb the nutrients more efficiently by delivering them more quickly to your bloodstream. Plus, you can mix it with water or any of your favorite beverages. No more swallowing horse pills that have synthetic binding glues, fillers, coatings, and anti-caking agents that offer no nutritional benefit.
The only downside to this formula is that it doesn't have as much iron (only about 2.3 mg) compared to the others on this list. Plus, it's actually quite expensive. But hey, you get what you pay for, right?
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Wholier Plant-Based Multivitamin
Wholier's mission is to develop formulas that are backed by data from studies and also have little effect on the environment. This multivitamin is one of their most popular formulas and contains eight essential nutrients for optimizing a vegan, vegetarian, or plant-forward diet.
Vitamin B12, vitamin D3, iron, iodine, zinc, selenium, omega-3 fatty acids, and vitamin K2 are the eight essential nutrients in this multivitamin. All of them are supplied in substantial amounts, including iron. Wholier is open about where it gets the ingredients for its products, and it appears to make its products in an ethical and sustainable way. Plus, their carbon footprint is smaller than that of brands with operations in developing nations.
However, their products are inevitably more expensive than most due to their avoidance of common allergens, GMOs, synthetic fillers, and colorants. And let's be honest, they don't taste the best. Wholier has added citrus extracts to enhance the flavor and aroma of their capsules, but it doesn't necessarily cover up their fishy flavor, which is likely caused by the use of algae/sea kelp for some of its nutrients.