Rainbow Light Active Health Teen Multivitamin - 90 Tablets with Vitamin B, C & E for Immune Support & Energy Boost - Essential Daily Supplement for Teenagers (School, Sports & Active Lifestyle)

My 12-year-old daughter recently decided to try eliminating meat (beef & pork, and eventually poultry) from her diet, and as part of my agreement to support her I requested that she incorporate a multivitamin into her daily eating plan. She has celiac disease which means she is very strictly 100% gluten-free by necessity; I needed to make sure anything she would be taking fell into that category. I also wanted to find a multivitamin to support her rapidly growing body; she's been going through a pre-pubescent growth spurt these past few months and was starting to develop some mild acne on her nose and forehead even though I taught her to wash her face daily over a year ago.I read many great reviews of this brand both on Amazon and several other websites; BY FAR Amazon has the best prices on this product over six other online stores I looked at, especially with the Subscribe & Save program; they cost less than half what other stores are charging. It's hard to find plant-based vitamins at a low cost.I am only giving these 4 stars because I have no way of knowing if the vitamins and minerals inside them are actually absorbing into her system without running bloodwork panels, and she has also complained about their taste not being great (as is the case with almost every multivitamin I've ever taken). But I like that these include iron (important as young women begin menstruating) as well as higher levels of B complex vitamins for energy; for 3 tablets provide 30 mcg of B12 (or 500% DV), which is a missing vitamin in my daughter's no red meat diet.They also have probiotics and other herbs to aid with digestion, and the bottle says these can be taken on an empty stomach. However, my daughter always takes them with her breakfast, along with an additional D3 supplement and a small glass of orange juice (she says the OJ helps the vitamins go down more easily). These are gluten-free, sugar-free, lactose-free, dairy-free, wheat-free and yeast-free, but are not listed as vegan; they DO contain soy lecithin.I started having her take 1 tablet daily until we knew her system was handling them well, then after a week we added a second one into her routine. The daily serving size is 3/day, but because she is still under 80 lbs I don't think she needs the full dose yet. These are pills for swallowing, not chewing, and they're solid and larger than my capsule multivitamins, so your teen needs to be proficient at swallowing larger pills in order to get them down. She wishes they were more like my pills (Rainbow Light Organic Women's Daily MV) so that I could blend them into a smoothie for her, but short of breaking them in half, which would scratch her throat going down, there's not much do do about that.I used it upon recommendations from other usersmy daughter loves his vitamin supplement she uses it regularly and quite often we end up buying more and more bottles on Amazon and it seems to be available which is great in Covid times my daughter sees her cute skin clearing up on her face and also less pimples and less things to worry about with all the different type of weathers that we’ve been having lately that cause sweating he dirt and all that stuff to affect your skinThey smell horrible and it is difficult for me to convince my teenager to take theseI've been buying these locally for my son for a number of years...but recently noticed that Amazon's price was MUCH better (at least it was at the time of this review). I prefer to use food-based vitamins for my family, primarily for the benefits derived from whole-food nutrients. These teenager-targeted vitamins are also entirely free of sugar, lactose, wheat, gluten, and yeast and are gentler on the stomach than other vitamins that I've bought. My son can take these on an empty stomach; while the big-name drugstore brands must be taken with food or he else he gets queasy. I have the same situation with stomach tolerance of vitamins so I take the "Women's One" version made by this same company. While 3 tablets is the recommended dosage of this teen vitamin, it does say that you can adjust the dosage to 1, 2, or 3 based upon your dietary/skin improvement needs. Although the tablets are rather large, he has no difficulties with them. I do wish they would switch to vegetable capsules which are easier to swallow, though.The herbal blend that helps to improve skin really does make a difference. My son headed off to college shortly before his 18th birthday. I sent a supply of his vitamins/supplements with him. At some point during his freshman year, he backed off of the vitamins...only taking 1 tablet a day instead of the 3 (and none at all on some days). By Christmas holiday, his normally clear skin was having fairly serious problems with breakouts. I guess he was trying to conserve the vitamins...but right at the time when his body probably needed them the most because of added stress. I sent several bottles back to school with him with the recommendation that he go back to 3 tablets. Huge improvement by the next time that I saw him. He's now 19 and I recently asked him if he wanted to switch to Rainbow Light's "Men's One." He's decided to stay with the teen version for awhile longer to help keep his skin clear.