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Melatonin plus a dessert · 3 min
Sleep gummies are still candy
A milligram of hormone in a pectin sweet, with flavour, colour, and a bedtime story. The gummy is doing more marketing than chemistry.
Shop the Vitamins aisleDose first
More melatonin is not kinder. Many gummies overshoot what a adult needs, and kids’ products are a special kind of messy. If you use it, a plain tablet is easier to dose than a sweet you might eat two of.
The candy problem
Sugar, syrup, dyes, ‘natural flavour’. You would not eat that at 11 p.m. as a snack and call it medicine. Scan the bottle. If the extras look like a pick-and-mix, pick the boring tablet.
