The FDC has issued a warning for adults who are now
taking their daily vitamin supplements in the form of gummy shapes to take only
one per day as they are not candy.
Thomas “Tommy” Smith, of Cincinnati, Ohio is in the
hospital recovering from an overdose of nutrients when he simply could not stop
eating his daily multivitamins.
“I saw a television commercial for daily multivitamins
that came in the form of gummy fruits,” said Tommy from his hospital bed. “I
noticed they had a sour fruit flavor, which is my favorite flavor in the whole
world.”
Tommy claims he had a buy-one-get-one-free coupon and ended
up bringing home two bottles, one for himself and one for his wife. “I opened
the bottle of sour gummy multivitamins and popped an orange slice-shaped
vitamin into my mouth and was hooked,” said Tommy.
By the time his wife found him four hours later, he was
semi-coherent with his bottle gone and his wife’s bottle half empty. “I didn’t
much care for the regular gummy flavor,” said Tommy, indicating that by then,
he was having second thoughts on downing so many of the flavorful fruits.
Doctors claim Tommy’s lack of taste for the regular-flavored
gummy vitamins saved his life. “Had he bought two jars of the sour gummies,”
said Dr. Granimal, chief physician at Methodist Regional Hospital, “Tommy
wouldn’t be with us today.”
Dr. Granimal has reported this incident to the FDC which
subsequently issued the nationwide warning. Adults with a sweet tooth are
advised against taking the vitamins in this new candy formula.
“While the
candy-flavored chewable vitamins have worked for kids for decades,” said an FDC
spokesperson, “some adults evidently are weaker than their kids and simply don’t have the will power to take just one
as recommended.”
