Everyday Essentials for Children

Everyday Essentials for Children

We now know the true importance of daily nutrition to support overall health and wellbeing for us adults, and this goes for the little ones too! Just as we need to ensure our bodies are taking in all of the essential nutrients to thrive, this is the same for our children, and laying down good nutritional foundations in childhood can have lifelong benefits.

Our extensive range of advanced, effective nutritional supplements for children covers the key areas that underpin child development from neonatal nutrition, promoting healthy immunity, bone health and cognition.

We pride ourselves on the quality of our children’s range, formulated by our Clinical Nutrition team in conjunction with leading practitioners to provide the highest standard of products, suitable for all ages, from babies to teenagers. Free from artificial colours and flavours, in liquid or powder forms for convenience and flexible dosing options.

Baby & Children’s Vitamin D3

Vitamin D is vital for many bodily systems to function efficiently, in particular to support children’s immunity and growth. Our Baby & Children’s Vitamin D3 is the perfect option for children of all ages. This product provides the preferred form of vitamin D as D3, and comes in a palatable, pure olive oil base. Each daily intake providing 400iu vitamin D which can be further increased to meet individual requirements.

Directions:

  • Suitable from birth
  • 4 drops taken directly under the tongue, added to liquids/ food
  • This product should not be given to infants consuming 500ml or more of infant formula daily, unless under medical supervision

Children’s Complete Multinutrient

The is our comprehensive multinutrient designed to support young children’s health from the age of 6 months. Each daily intake provides a broad range of the essential vitamins and minerals needed to support your child’s cognitive development and bone growth, including vitamin D, calcium, iron and zinc. Furthermore, this includes the preferred forms of key nutrients, such as folate as methylfolate and vitamin b12 as methylcobalamin, ensuring this multi is well absorbed and utilised by the body. This comes in an easy to take powder form, in a great tasting banana flavour, which can simply be added to liquids (e.g. water/ juice) or added to foods such as yogurt for those pickier eaters. This really is our go-to for children’s everyday support.

Directions:

  • Vegetarian and vegan
  • Can be added to liquids/ food

Dose depending on age:

  • 6 months – ¼ tsp daily
  • 1-5 years – ½ tsp daily
  • 5 years+ - 1 tsp daily

Baby BioFlora


Baby BioFlora is our top, live bacteria product for babies, suitable to be given from birth. Baby BioFlora is a specialised blend of the clinically-researched LAB4B bacteria blend, which was used in the Swansea Baby Trial.Each dose provides 10 billion live bacteria, with GOS (galactooligosaccharides), which is naturally found in breast milk.

Directions:

  • ¼ teaspoon per day (approx. 1 gram) taken alongside formula/breast milk.
  • Apply the powder directly into the baby’s mouth on a clean finger, alongside a feed
  • Can also be mixed into warm milk or food
  • Suitable from birth
  • Vegetarian friendly
  • No need to refrigerate

Children's Red Berry BioMelts

Children's red berry biomelts

Children’s Red Berry BioMelts® is a unique multi strain live bacteria formulation with vitamin D3 to support your child’s immune system. This comes in convenient and fun individual sachets, filled with a great tasting berry flavoured powder, which really does melt on the tongue! This makes for an ideal option for those pickier eaters. Each sachet provides 3 billion live bacteria of the clinically researched Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG and Bifidobacterium lactis strains, alongside a daily dose of vitamin D3 at 300iu.

Directions:

  • 1 sachet taken daily, directly on the tongue
  • Suitable from the age of 3 years
  • No need to refrigerate

Children’s OmegaCare

Children’s OmegaCare is our highly concentrated, pure fish oil, sustainably sourced from anchovies and sardines for the richest supply of omega 3 fatty acids, ideal to support your child’s cognition and brain health. Each serving provides optimum levels of the essential fatty acids EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid) and DHA (docosahexanaenoic acid). We also use an antioxidant system called ‘Multox’ to enhance stability to provide the purest and richest fish oil possible. This comes in liquid form in a palatable orange flavour. This tastes great taken straight off a spoon or can be added to smoothies.

Directions:

  • Shake well before use
  • Can be mixed into food or drink such as smoothie or yoghurt

Dose depending on age:

  • From 1 year - ¼ tsp (1.25ml)
  • From 3 years - ½ tsp (2.5ml)

If you have any questions about the products mentioned above or would like further guidance on their uses, please do not hesitate to get in touch with us, our clinical nutrition team are always on hand to offer guidance and support.



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The brand you can talk to:

We have a team of Nutritionists at the end of our advice line, open to you, for product support and advice (5 days a week). 0121 433 8702 or clinicalnutrition@biocare.co.uk

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[i] Department of Health. (2011). Headline results from Years 1 and 2 (combined) of the rolling programme 2008/9 - 2009/10. National Diet and Nutrition Survey.

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