Vitamin D3 5000iu (125 mcg) High Potency Vitamin D – Dietary Supplement for Bone, Teeth, Muscle and Immune Health Support – Nature’s VIT D, Vegan, Gluten Free, Raspberry Flavor – 60 Chewable Tablets

Delightful Chewable Tablet
These vitamins are very enjoyable to take. They are a chewable tablet. They taste delicious. I am able to get my Vitamin D every day with enjoyment.

Chewable and very sweet
These Nature’s Peak Vitamin D3 tablets are easy to chew and take. Each 1 chewable tablet contains 5,000 IU or 125 mcg of Vitamin D3. The sweeteners used in these tablets include sugar alcohols with Isomalt and Sorbitol as well as Stevia. Each tablet also contains raspberry juice powder for flavoring and magnesium stearate to aid in absorption of vitamin D3. However, the magnesium is not listed in the Amount Per Serving area.The tablets are easily chewable and do have a noticeable raspberry flavor. As the title states, they are quite sweet as well, even though they don’t state to contain any regular sugars with the label stating “Sugar Free”. These tablets are relatively small. They are slightly wider than a quarter of an inch. However, seeing as each tablet contains more than twice the 2024 recommended amount (~2000 IU) of D3 and more than 4 times the older daily recommended value, you’ll want to be cautious with the potential for over-absorbing vitamin D3. I haven’t tried cutting the tablets in half, but it’s possible to reduce the amount per serving by cutting. It’s possible that these tablets might simply crush and not cut.This Nature’s Peak bottle contains a 120 day supply of tablets for around $17. Note that the bottle is noticeably large compared to the amount of tablets within. When you unseal this double sealed container, you will notice that the bottle seems mostly empty.Overall, 5 stars because they taste great, are easy to take and seem to be a great value.

Very expensive, run-of-the-mill chewable D3 tablets
We need vitamin D for building and maintaining healthy bones. Unlike a true vitamin (i.e., an essential nutrient that cannot be produced by our body), we produce vitamin D when exposing our skin to direct sunlight. But that depends on many factors, such as time of day, season, latitude, clothing, and even skin pigmentation. Further, the currently common use of sunscreens with a protection factor higher than 8, for the prevention of skin cancer, also reduces skin’s production. With few exceptions, there is very little or no natural vitamin D in the kind of foods people normally eat. Vitamin D supplements are absorbed best when taken with food. [1] Source. These are a private-label, OEM D3 tablets made by an undisclosed custom manufacturer in China, most likely the Ivc Nutrition Corp. (Jiangsu). The product is sourced and sold here by the online marketeer SilverOnyx LLC (a Delaware company located in Utah) through its FBA storefront. [2] Specs. At the time of this writing, the last paragraph of the About this item section is incoherent, showing a lack of attention and poor quality control of the information presented here by the seller. The active ingredient of these tablets is cholecalciferol (D3), which is produced industrially from lanolin (the grease secreted by sebaceous glands of sheep) or lichens (a composite between fungi and algae, or cyanobacteria, in symbiotic arrangement). The former is absolutely more common and less expensive than the latter. Given the lack of hype about the origin, and asymmetric price differences, it is safe to conclude that this D3 is derived from wool grease and wool-wax alcohols from cleaning the wool after shearing, and is not a vegan product. The excipients are : isomalt (sweetener and coating agent) ; sorbitol (sweetener) ; raspberry juice powder (flavorant) ; citric acid (flavorant and preservative) ; magnesium stearate (anticaking agent) ; silicon dioxide (anticaking agent) ; and steviol glycosides (sweetener). Ordered in 7/2024, the ‘best use’ date of the bottle I received is 5/2027. [3] Dosage. Each tablet nominally has 5000 IU of D3, or about 8X the current daily Recommended Dietary Allowance of 600 UI for age 1 to 70 years (and 800 IU above 70). This allowance does not include supplements, but focuses on foods and is centred on the regulation of bone metabolism and calcium and phosphate absorption. Nonetheless, research in this century has expanded vitamin-D actions to include many beneficial pleiotropic effects, which has led to various supplementation guidelines. Some seek a target of an optimal level of 25-hydroxyvitamin-D (a form of the vitamin produced in the liver), like European guidelines that favour supplementations between 400 UI and 2000 IU per day, depending on age, body weight, health status, and skin pigmentation; the D3 amount of the tablets ranges between 2.5 and 12.5 times such dosages. Others, like the 2024 guidelines of the Endocrine Society (based on reviews of clinical trials and other studies) oppose routine testing of 25(HO)D, and recommend supplementing four groups: age 1 to 18 years; age 75 or older; those pregnant; and adults with high-risk prediabetes — in contrast, they oppose supplementing healthy adults age 19 to 74 years. They do not give specific dosages, but if the weighted average doses from the respective studies of each of the groups were used as daily amounts, the D3 amount of the tablets is between 1.5 and 5.5 times those doses. [4] Potential risks. The different recommendations and variability of individual UV-exposure and dietary lifestyles make determining how much vitamin to take a difficult task. But the nominal D3 amount of these tablets is higher than the 4000 UI of the current *Tolerable Upper Limit*, which is the maximum daily intake unlikely to cause adverse health effects. Excess amounts of vitamin D (particularly over long-term supplementation) can be toxic, and might lead to a hypercalcemia that can cause significant problems, some grave in extreme cases. Toxicity effects may last for months despite stopping the supplementation, as the vitamin is stored in fat tissues. Hypercalcemia related to the vitamin has been reported more frequently in recent years — consult your health care provider before starting a long supplementation. [5] Cost. A search for “vitamin D3 5000 IU chewable tablets” at the time of writing found eight such items on Amazon. At the time of writing, this item is the most expensive of such products, being $4 higher than the second most expensive, and about $7 higher than the least expensive one with a 120 count. —