My son is too small to swallow pills. Since we avoid dairy, we supplement with calcium, magnesium, zinc, probiotics and occasionally other things (strangely he will just eat fish oil…go figure). These do not taste great. But I don’t want to add more sugar to his diet.
Enter chocolate yogurt. It hides calcium, magnesium and probiotics like a champ.
We simply take So Delicious Vanilla Yogurt (if you need sugar free you can use plain plus stevia) and add a really heaping teaspoon (about a measured tablespoon) of unsweetened cocoa to about 4 oz of yogurt. It is very chocolatey, it hides the taste of the probiotics and the minerals, and he hasn’t gotten sick of it yet.
If your child cannot have chocolate you can try pureed blueberries or strawberries. Chocolate just hides a multitude of flavors since it is naturally kind of bitter.
If the supplement that you need to hide is iron, this will not work. Iron tastes foul in chocolate yogurt. What works there is Sunbutter. Make a Sunbutter sandwich and just mix in the powder from the iron capsule. Not only do you not taste the iron, but the copper in the sunbutter helps with the absorption of the iron.
Just remember to never take iron and calcium at the same meal.
