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Okay, so I'm paying a dollar per day for these vitamins. I'm not enthusiastic about the price, but I'm willing to pay, since my latest vice is choosing supplements in gummy form, no more roughing it with the softgels. And this brand looks pretty good: the Amazon reviews are enthusiastic. Moving on, I check the label photo at the top left of the Amazon page, and the label passes my critical test: it claims to have 100% of the daily value for biotin. (Side note: biotin, being relatively expensive, is where multivitamin makers like to save money. Compare the lists on multivitamin labels sometime; you'll see 100%, 500%, 2667%, all down the list, and then tucked in quietly you'll see "Biotin 10%". That's ten percent, not one hundred percent.) So, getting back to the story, the poor old pensioner (that's me) takes the plunge and orders a bottle. The bottle arrives, and I look at the actual label. But, strangely, it does not say "Biotin 100%". It says "Biotin 50%". Not 300 mcg of biotin, but 150 mcg. Wait, what? I look back at the Amazon photo. The photo still says "100%"; that hasn't changed. Looking at retail biotin prices, I see 300 mcg of biotin, the full 100%, for a daily cost of 0.6 cents, at retail. The daily cost of these SmartyPants is nearly a dollar. Apparently, it was worth it to the manufacturer to worsen their original formulation in order to save 0.3 cents, or less, per daily dose. No bueno. P.S. Of course, I'm returning these. YMMV.
July 2018 · Health and Household · verified purchase