Shop Vitamins & Minerals

Vitamins and minerals are the plainest shelf in the store, and the one most routines are quietly standing on: the nutrients a body needs every day in small, steady amounts. Each has a job the NIH Office of Dietary Supplements describes in a line — vitamin D helps the body absorb calcium, magnesium takes part in normal muscle and nerve function, and the body uses iron to make hemoglobin, the protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen. None of that turns a capsule into a stand-in for the food those nutrients come from. A capsule is a top-up for the days meals leave a gap, and this collection is stocked on exactly that basis: one broad multivitamin, and single nutrients for people who already know which one they are shopping for.

A row on a vitamin panel can carry three things worth reading — the form, the amount and the percentage of the Daily Value — and the useful labels print all three. Vitamin D3 Softgels name the form in the row itself: cholecalciferol, the D3 form, at 2,000 IU (50 mcg) in one small softgel. 2,000 IU Vitamin D3 & K2 Strips carry that same D3 amount beside 120 mcg of vitamin K2 as menaquinone, on a raspberry strip that dissolves on the tongue. Minerals are where the amount trips people up: Magnesium Glycinate Capsules print 2,500 mg of magnesium glycinate and 275 mg of magnesium in the same row, because the first figure is the whole compound and the second is the mineral inside it — the one the 65% Daily Value is worked out from.

19mg Iron & Folate Strips keep the panel to two rows, 19 mg of iron in a named ferric form and 400 mcg DFE of folate. And Daily Multivitamin Capsules is the wide net — twenty vitamin and mineral rows in a two-capsule serving, plus three botanical blends printed as blend totals — with one absence worth knowing: there is no iron on its panel, and the strips are the only iron in this collection.

The percentage is not a ceiling, though, and the ceiling is the number no panel prints. The NIH Office of Dietary Supplements puts the adult upper limit at 100 mcg (4,000 IU) a day for vitamin D and 45 mg for iron, counting food, drinks and supplements together, and at 350 mg for magnesium from supplements and medications. A limit is not a target, so add up every bottle you already take before you add another. The two D3 products here each carry 2,000 IU, which makes them an either-or, not a pair. One product in this collection needs saying plainly: at its label directions, Calcium, Vitamin D3 & K2 Capsules supply 250 mcg (10,000 IU) of vitamin D a day, two and a half times the adult limit, so it is one to clear with a healthcare provider rather than one we suggest.

Beyond that, keep it simple: one product at a time, taken as the label directs, on a monthly Subscribe & Save at 10% off that you can cancel from your account. Magnesium glycinate also works an evening shift in the wind-down collection, and every form and figure on these product pages comes from the supplier's written specification — the rule we hold every listing to.