There are lots of reasons why vitamin drinks can be a better option for you than tablets, and part of that is because the nutrients in liquids are absorbed by your body much quicker.

When you take a vitamin tablet, it can take around 30 minutes for it to break down and start to absorb into your system, but liquids have already done that work for you, so your body can absorb those nutrients right away.

This also means that you’ll typically absorb 98% of the vitamins in Tonic Health drinks, where tablets and capsules usually only provide around 5 - 10%, a huge difference!

Vitamin C is well known for its benefits to your immune system, with many stocking up on orange juice when cold and flu season rolls around.

It works as an antioxidant, helping to protect your cells from oxidative stress and encouraging wound healing.

It also helps your body to maintain your skin, bones blood vessels, and cartilage.

The problem is, your body doesn’t keep store Vitamin C for very long, so it’s important to ensure that you get enough of it every day, whether this is through your diet or vitamin supplements.

Vitamin D is also known as the sunshine vitamin, as it is created by the body when our skin is exposed to direct sunlight.

We can also receive it by consuming certain foods, such as:

• Oily fish, such as salmon, sardines, herring and mackerel
• Red meat
• Liver
• Egg yolks
• Fortified foods, such as some breads and breakfast cereals
• Vitamin D is important, as our body requires it for maintaining both physical and mental health.

It helps to regulate the amount of calcium and phosphate in the body, as well as helping our body to absorb calcium to keep bones, teeth and muscles healthy.

Our bodies require vitamin D from birth, to ensure our bones are strong and to promote healthy development.

All Tonic Health vitamin drinks are currently suitable for vegetarians, but only the elderberry & blackcurrant vitamin drinks are vegan friendly too.

As the lemon and honey drinks use real honey for flavouring, they cannot be considered vegan.

Tonic Health vitamin drinks can be taken by children over the age of 4.

If you’re ever concerned about your child’s vitamin intake you should speak to your doctor or pharmacist for advice.