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. 2023 Apr 3;117(4):823–829. doi: 10.1016/j.ajcnut.2022.12.018

TABLE 3.

Dietary supplements meeting target doses on the market as of December 13, 2022

Vitamin A1
Vitamin D1
Folate1
Calcium
Iron
ω-3 FAs
Price per daily serving (USD)
Total (mcg RAE) Retinol (mcg RAE) (mcg) (DFE mcg) (mg) (mg) (mg)
Target supplementation2 ≥198 ≤2063 7–91 169–720 383–943 13–22 ≥59
Product (DSLD ID)
 Shaklee Life with Iron (218568; Apr 2020) 1875 469 31 680 500 18 1063 6.87 (32)
 GNC Women’s Multivitamin Prenatal Plus DHA & Iron (229141; Jul 2020) 1350 0 10 1700 600 18 500 0.83 (33)
 Carlson Women’s Omega Multi (216148; Mar 2020) 1200 444 20 667 50 13.5 245 0.37 (34)

DFE, dietary folate equivalent; DSLD ID, Dietary Supplement Label Database input date; EPA, eicosapentaenoic acid; RAE, retinol activity equivalent. 1Conversions for alternate units reported on labels: vitamin A international unit (IU) × 0.30 = vitamin A RAE; vitamin D IU × 0.025 = vitamin D mcg; folic acid mcg × 1.7 = folic acid mcg DFE (28). 2Defined as the range that results in ≤10% intakes below the EAR (or 100 mg/d for ω-3 FAs) and ≤10% intakes above the UL, based on the sample percentiles, for all participants aged 14–50 y.