Your supplement drawer may have grown over the years, with new products becoming available on a regular basis.

Depending on whether you’retaking a multivitaminor a specific mineral, you likely have to choose betweengummy optionsand chewable tablets.

Indeed,Timereports, 80 percent of the gummy vitamin industry revolves around adult gummy vitamins.

Gummy vitamins

But, are they actually working?

Enter: easy-to-chew gummies and tablets.

Unfortunately, gummies are harder to jam bioavailable nutrients into.

Gummy vitamins in a glass jar

And, gummies were most unlikely to pass testing, the outlet notes.

Plus, this jot down of supplement loses its potency much more quickly than other options.

Also made with sugars and sugar alcohol, chewable vitamins may have 8 grams of sugar per serving.

In addition to the most common results of too much sugar, theis can also impact dental health.

The outlet reports that parts of these gummies may stick on your teeth and lead to cavities.

Swallowing pills the old fashioned way offers the safest option for absorbing important nutrients.