Kid's Multi Essentials+® | Liquid Multivitamin Formula

Hi Arlene,

I think I understand at least some of what you are trying to determine and i will try to answer that instead, if that's ok.

I think you want to know 'is this product the best quality, made without compromise, is it one that my body or my child's body will recognize, use, get a lot of benefit from without risk of harm"?.

You want to avoid petrol based chemicals developed as weapons, and anything known to cause the body stress or harm. We formulate very carefully, as parents, as environmentalists, as conscientious people.

I don't think you want a direct answer to the question asking if the ingredients come from plants or from chemicals because that is not phrased in a way that can be answered since everything in a plant is a chemical. The word chemical can be considered a synonym of matter; a chemical is anything that has mass. This includes most things, including everything from plants, everyday substances like water, phytonutrients and sugar. Elements featured on the periodic table are chemicals, and so are small molecules like caffeine, large molecules such as deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and almost-infinite chains called polymers, such as plastics.

So, to answer your true question, we do make products that are the best quality we can source, made without compromise. We avoid plastics and do consider many things such as the purity and trustworthyness of sources, the reliability and consistency of the ingredients, the proof supporting their use, and we aim that they, will be recognized, used, and will benefit the body without risk of harm to physical or spiritual aspects of the person. We test and we have third parties test for purity, efficacy and stability and we pay attention how people feel using the products.

This product contains good quality minerals that are in their most natural un altered state and come from nature, The whole formula is vegan-friendly, meaning we do get the vitamin D from lichen, for example. There are many plant ingredients that are minimally processed - like the elderberry and acerola.

However, some of the ingredients instead of being extracted from a plant have been produced by fermentation which does involve people in a lab overseeing the vitamin production from the process, and in some cases even more precise methods like synthesis are used in co,mbination with fermentation, overseen by nutrition scientists. This allows us to guarantee that the ingredients are pure, meet their potency and efficacy and stability promises and are consistently helpful in every batch. Of course, we avoid compounds that haven't been shown to be beneficial.

We do value things are straight from the plant as possible, and we do offer 100% fruit-source vitamin C in our Acerola powder (a single ingredient) and we have offered vitamin complexes entirely sourced from plants; but this isn't something that works in every circumstance. While our acerola vitamin C is ok, other products are too variable.

We have found many difficulties offering completely simple food extracts from fruits, vegetables, mushrooms, in products like our Stressveda. While we do value having simple, understandable ingredients that are close to nature. like most companies, we find these products are less stable, and do not always provide the same consistent amount of nutrients. Other companies just add the pharmacopea nutrients to the fruit based ones and focus on the fruit, or tell you that they are fruit-sourced when really what you are getting probably all comes from the more stable lab-assisted nutrient complexes.

Most plant-sourced vitamin products need some help from some kind of intervention to be able to help us once they are isolated from the plant.

Please let me know if you need more help to get the information you are looking for,

Best, Flora Health