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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For the "expensive urine" people -- if your kid is actually eating a truly varied diet and getting plenty of iron then sure -- they'll just pee out the excess nutrients.

But most kids don't eat truly varied diets. Even the good eaters who aren't that picky. They have veggies they like and veggies they don't -- maybe they love carrots but will just push kale around on their plate. Maybe they are good with dairy but iffy with meat (that's my kid). They'll eat things but they might not eat much of it and they might eat it sporadically.

Vitamins help plug the gap. Because my kid is basically a vegetarian by default and can be hit or miss with other sources of iron, we do vitamins with iron. I'm sure there's a bunch of stuff in there that just goes right through her, but they are cheap and it's not hard.

No gummies though -- they are bad for your teeth and most are not nutritionally as useful as a mass market chewable like Flintstones. They are preying on the paranoia parents now feel about processed foods, but they are also processed. And also terrible for teeth and generally don't have iron and don't offer useful values of other key nutrients.

Flinstones ftw.[/quote]

Even if they aren’t eating a perfect varied diet.  Majority of foods made with flour in the U.S. are fortified.  Even kids living on a chicken nugget diet in the U.S. aren’t going to get scurvy. 
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