How We Review Vitamins, Minerals, and Supplements

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does not regulate supplements, meaning many vitamins and minerals available in the United States are not safe or effective.

Medical News Today aims to provide our readers with reliable product recommendations that they can trust.

We carefully vet dietary supplements before our testers thoroughly review them. We only feature high quality products that we are confident will benefit our readers.

Our Medical Standards and Insights team vets every dietary supplement brand and individual product we consider. This ensures a rigorous approval process before we review and feature any products.

The team assesses many factors, including:

Any brand we partner with must pass our vetting process before we review or feature their products.

We regularly reevaluate brands and products to ensure they continually adhere to our standards. Brands or products that have originally passed vetting may fail if they make changes that do not align with our standards.

Our vetting process follows the same guidelines as our sister brand, Healthline.

Learn more about our joint vetting process.

Our editors carefully select vitamins, minerals, and supplements to feature from our pool of vetted products.

When choosing products to feature, we consider our readers’ health goals, the latest nutrient research, available information on formulation quality and nutrient forms, and value for money.

We only feature products we trust will safely and reliably support our readers’ health goals.

A pool of Medical News Today staff and contributors test products from our vetted list. We encourage honest and thorough feedback from all testers.

Some questions we may ask of our dietary supplement testers include:

When matching a tester with a product, we consider the tester’s health goals, any health conditions or considerations, dietary needs and preferences, and their current supplement regime.

Our tester pool consists of people from different backgrounds, as we intend to provide a realistic consumer experience.

We welcome all feedback, positive or negative. Our reviewers do not receive payment or incentive for reviews; all views are theirs.