Hello and welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition's Ask a Nutritionist podcast brought to you by

nutritional weight and wellness. My name is Leah Kleinshrode. I'm a registered and licensed

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So on today's show, I will be answering a question that we received from one of our Dishing Up Nutrition listeners.

And this listener says they're looking for a good multivitamin.

There are so many out there.

It's hard to know what ones are good quality and safe.

I 100% agree with you.

This is a great question. There are thousands of multivitamins out on the market today, and many of which you can purchase over the internet with a few clicks

of the button. So this is great because it makes some really great products available to us, but it can also be very

overwhelming if you're just not sure what you're looking at. Maybe I'm the only one, but as

anybody else, when you're just kind of overwhelmed with what you're looking at, either on a shelf

or online, that you just kind of go with the one that has the prettiest label or has the

prettiest bottle.

Maybe I'm the only one. I'm not sure. But one of my colleagues here at Nutritional Weight and Wellness Brittany wrote an article for our blog back in 2022 that addressed some of the ins and outs of what

to look for in a quality multibitamin. She does a really great job explaining why we as dietitians often recommend

a quality multivitamin for our clients, but also just how we can end up so nutrient depleted

in the first place. I'm going to take some of the highlights of the points that Brittany made in that

article and also elaborate on a few more that I find helpful.

And going forward, I want everyone to just keep in mind that there may not be a multivitamin

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