I know, what a dumb question. That’s like asking how many musketeers were in the three musketeers.
JCD, a regular Mouse Print* reader, brought up the issue in the context of One-A-Day vitamins.
One would expect that you take one per day, right?
*MOUSE PRINT:
Nope… you have to take two.
You have to wonder how many people under-dosed on these vitamins because they reasonably assumed that the whole point of One-A-Day is to take one per day. Even at that, you are still not getting 100% of the daily requirement of some of the vitamins in the product.
Bottom line: don’t assume.
This reminds me of my Autoweek magazine subscription. For years, Auto”week” arrived weekly. Then when I renewed a couple of years ago, I noticed some issues weren’t delivered. I called and was advised that the publishing schedule was NOW “bi-weekly.” I had made an assumption and hadn’t read their updated “fine print.” There was silence when I suggested a title change.
I’m sure their argument is like Subways saying “One a Day” is just a name, it doesn’t mean anything, just like “foot long” didn’t mean 12 inches.
Well, you’re still taking at least one a day.
I’m curious how many people bought this product and decided to take one a day without reading the label.
Edgar replies: Well, Wayne, then maybe they should rename the product “At Least One-A-Day” !
“More Than One A Day”
AND it makes it sound as though the product may have got bigger. Win-win-win.
I remember falling for this a few years ago when my brother and I were taking them. I noticed after a few weeks they seemed to be going faster than I would’ve expected and my brother pointed out the instructions saying to take two daily. When I protested that the brand name was misleading he said “it’s just a brand name, not the directions” and suggested it might refer to taking the two gummies once daily.
Anyhow, the next weekend I compared other vitamins and found that a dose of two gummies daily seems to be more or less the industry standard for gummy vitamins. Still, with the huge brand name on the front seeming to suggest otherwise I felt they should’ve made it more clear on the front of the packaging that it’s not referring to taking only one of the gummies a day.
Solution: Eat a healthy balanced diet and don’t waste money on pills or gummy animals.
They would probably just say the “One Serving a Day” was too big for the label.
It’s just a brand name. I take these, and I always look to the serving size printed on the drug/nutrition facts rather than what the label wants me to see.