By Reed Mangels, PhD, RD

Suppose that you visit your obstetrician and learn that you need to begin taking a prenatal vitamin/mineral supplement. You’d like to find a vegan prenatal and want to make sure it has the nutrients that you need. You could spend hours finding products online or in stores or you could make a quick stop at the Office of Dietary Supplement’s Supplement Label Database. This database includes current and historical label information from more than 150,000 products marketed in the United States. It allows you to search by key word, so you can look for products that have “vegan” on the label. Filters allow you to limit your search to products currently on the market and to specify the type of supplement you are looking for (e.g. multivitamin, fiber, fatty acid, vitamin, mineral). You can limit your search to products targeted at infants, toddlers, or pregnancy and you can specify the form of the supplement (bar, powder, gummies, tablet, etc.).

When I searched for a vegan prenatal multivitamin/mineral supplement that is currently on the market, I found nine products. I was able to view the label information for each of these products and could see what the ingredients were. The database provided a link to the manufacturer’s website for each product. It helped me to have the information I would need to decide which product best met my needs.

The Dietary Supplement Label Database could also be useful if you are looking for a vegan multivitamin/mineral supplement for a toddler, or for a vegan source of omega-3 fatty acids, or any time you have a question about a dietary supplement.

To read more about supplements see:

Do I need to take a daily multi-vitamin and mineral?

Should I take a daily multi-vitamin supplement?

Supplements for vegan children

Do vegetarians have to take vitamin B12 supplements?

Calcium supplement