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Caltrate Soft Chews
Pfizer
Consumer Healthcare, Madison,
N.J.
1-888-797-5638
On the heels of the Institute of Medicine’s
most recent recommendation for Americans to increase the daily recommended
intake of vitamin D as a means of maintaining bone health, Madison, N.J.-based
Pfizer Consumer Healthcare has launched Caltrate
Soft Chews, a tasty and convenient way to help reach the new, higher daily
vitamin D goals.
Caltrate Soft Chews are available in
Chocolate Truffle and Vanilla Creme flavors and can be taken with or without
food, offering a portable, nutritious and delicious solution to help get the
daily calcium and vitamin D3 needed to stay healthy, active and moving.
Two daily Caltrate
Soft Chews provide 1200 mg of calcium, roughly the same amount found in 17
servings of broccoli, and 800 IU of vitamin D3, roughly the same amount found
in more than 6 servings of vitamin D-fortified, 2% milk or roughly the same
amount of 134 half-cup servings of vanilla ice cream.
Ingredients: (Chocolate Truffle) Calcium carbonate, corn syrup, sucrose,
hydrogenated coconut oil, cocoa processed with alkali, nonfat dry milk, corn syrup
solids, glycerin. Contains <2% of: cholecalciferol (vitamin D3), corn
starch, ethyl alcohol, invert sugar, soy lecithin, medium-chain triglycerides, modified
corn starch, natural and artificial flavors, propylene glycol, salt, silicon
dioxide, sodium ascorbate, tocopherols, tribasic calcium phosphate, yellow
prussiate of soda. Contains: milk, soybean.
S.R.P.: $8-$10 for a 600-gram bag.