Best vegan multivitamin: 8 compared on B12, iodine, iron and D

Deva’s Vegan Multivitamin & Mineral One Daily is our pick, with 100 mcg of B12 and 150 mcg of iodine in a tablet Deva says is Vegan Society registered. Its 80 mg green blend includes ashwagandha, which NCCIH says to avoid in pregnancy. Deva’s prenatal leaves the herb out. Centrum Adults makes no vegan claim on its label.

The ashwagandha is the third of 15 ingredients in that blend, listed after spirulina and alfalfa leaf, and the label gives the blend’s total without saying how much of the 80 mg is ashwagandha. NCCIH, the federal center for complementary and integrative health, says ashwagandha should be avoided during pregnancy and not used while breastfeeding. It says the herb may be safe taken short term, up to 3 months, and that there is not enough information to draw conclusions about its long-term safety. It also notes rare cases of liver injury linked to ashwagandha supplements. And it says the herb is not recommended for people with thyroid or autoimmune disorders or for anyone about to have surgery, and that it might interact with thyroid, diabetes and blood pressure medicines, among others. The amount in a tablet could be small. The label doesn’t let you check. Deva’s iron-free version carries the same blend, while its prenatal and its Tiny Tablets list no ashwagandha at all. Whether one tablet is the right answer for you, rather than B12 and iodine on their own, is what our guide to the supplements vegans actually need works through.

Eight multivitamins compared

We read each maker’s own product page or label artwork in November 2026. Deva lists no prices on its own site, and Haleon’s label for Centrum carries none; the three prices below are the makers’ own and will change. Per-day figures are our arithmetic.

Product	Per day	B12	Vitamin D	Iodine	Iron	Ashwagandha listed	Vegan, per the maker
Deva Vegan Multivitamin & Mineral One Daily	1 tablet	100 mcg	20 mcg D2	150 mcg, from kelp	18 mg	Yes, in the blend	Vegan Society registered
Deva Vegan Multivitamin & Mineral Iron-Free One Daily	1 tablet	100 mcg	20 mcg D2	150 mcg, from kelp	None	Yes, in the blend	Vegan Society registered
Deva Vegan Prenatal Multivitamin & Mineral One Daily	1 tablet	100 mcg	20 mcg D2	225 mcg	21 mg	No	Vegan Society registered
Deva Vegan Tiny Tablets Multivitamin & Mineral	1 tablet	6 mcg	20 mcg D2	75 mcg	9 mg	No	Vegan Society registered
The Vegan Society VEG 1	1 tablet	25 mcg	20 mcg D3, from lichen	150 mcg	None	No	Made by the Vegan Society
Future Kind Essential Vegan Multivitamin	2 softgels	400 mcg	50 mcg D3, from lichen	None	None	No	Vegan in the product name
Thorne Basic Nutrients 2/Day	2 capsules	600 mcg	50 mcg D3, source not given	75 mcg	None	No	No claim
Centrum Adults	1 tablet	6 mcg	25 mcg D3, source not given	150 mcg	18 mg	No	No claim

Deva Vegan Multivitamin & Mineral One Daily

Our pick, on the strength of what the label settles. Deva says the tablet is 100% animal free and registered with the Vegan Society, and it names a vegetable source for the stearic acid, the magnesium stearate and the glycerin, with a line that all the other ingredients are from non-animal sources. Those are the lines we would otherwise have to email a brand about.

The 100 mcg of B12, as cyanocobalamin, is ten times the 10 mcg the Vegan Society gives as the floor for a daily B12 supplement (our arithmetic). The iodine is 150 mcg, from kelp, which matches the 150 mcg a day MedlinePlus gives for adults. Selenium and zinc sit at 127% of the Daily Value, and most of the B vitamins run higher, with thiamin and riboflavin printed at 1,000%.

Calcium is 100 mg, 8% of the Daily Value, so this is not your calcium. Deva lists no price on its own site, so you will be comparing stockists. And there is the blend: spirulina, chlorella, broccoli, spinach, ginger, chamomile and ashwagandha among its 15 ingredients, 80 mg in all. Skip it if you are pregnant or breastfeeding, or have a thyroid condition, for the reasons in the opening; the prenatal and the Tiny Tablets leave the herb out.

Deva Vegan Multivitamin & Mineral Iron-Free One Daily

The same tablet with the iron taken out. Deva says it contains no iron, and every other line on the panel matches the version above, the 80 mg green blend with its ashwagandha included.

Which of the two you want comes down to how much iron you need. MedlinePlus gives an iron RDA of 8 mg a day for men and for women 51 and older, and 18 mg for women aged 19 to 50. The iron version’s 18 mg is the whole of the younger women’s figure and 2.25 times the 8 mg one (our arithmetic). Ask your doctor for a blood test before you settle it, and buy this version if the answer is that food already covers you.

Deva Vegan Prenatal Multivitamin & Mineral One Daily

The ashwagandha is gone, and so is the green blend. The botanicals that remain are small amounts of cinnamon, alfalfa, chamomile, rose hips and acerola extract, and the other ingredients include turmeric and a riboflavin coating. Deva says it is registered with the Vegan Society and approved by ConsumerLab.com.

The iodine is 225 mcg, as potassium iodide, against the 220 mcg a day MedlinePlus gives for pregnancy and 290 mcg while breastfeeding. The iron is 21 mg, under the 27 mg pregnancy RDA. Folate is 1,000 mcg DFE, given as 600 mcg of folic acid; MedlinePlus says to avoid more than 1,000 mcg of folic acid a day except for women planning a pregnancy after one affected by a neural tube defect, and 600 is under that line. Calcium is 130 mg, 10% of the Daily Value, so ask your doctor about calcium separately. There is no DHA in it.

Set the dose with your doctor or midwife rather than from this page. If you are not pregnant or planning to be, the regular One Daily is the closer fit.

Deva Vegan Tiny Tablets Multivitamin & Mineral

Smaller doses, no herb. The panel has no green blend, and its other ingredients are the same vegetable stearates and cellulose Deva uses elsewhere, all from non-animal sources by its own statement. Iron is 9 mg as ferrous fumarate, half the Daily Value.

The B12 is where it falls short. Six mcg of cyanocobalamin is under the Vegan Society’s 10 mcg daily floor, and the 75 mcg of iodine is half the adult RDA. If you choose it, choose it with a separate B12 supplement. It suits someone who wants a light multi with no herbs in it and is happy to take B12 on the side; as your only tablet, it leaves B12 and iodine under the figures above.

The Vegan Society VEG 1

Seven nutrients, chosen on purpose. One chewable tablet gives 25 mcg of B12, 150 mcg of iodine, 20 mcg of vitamin D3 from lichen, 60 mcg of selenium, 200 mcg of folic acid, 1.6 mg of B2 and 2 mg of B6, with 0.76 g of sugar. The Society leaves out calcium because it wants it to come from food and because it would hurt the tablet’s taste and chewability; zinc because it considers a varied, mostly whole-food vegan diet enough; and omega-3 because oil does not combine easily with a tablet. Its FAQ doesn’t mention iron.

It costs £13.90 for a 6-month supply, under 8p a day (our arithmetic) before postage to the US, the lowest of the three prices we found. Getting it to the US is the catch. The Society sells it from its webshop and eBay, ships to the rest of the world by Royal Mail with a target of 3 to 7 working days and up to 21, and lists stockists in the UK, elsewhere in Europe and New Zealand but none in the US. Don’t buy it if you need iron in your multi, or can’t wait up to 21 days for post from the UK.

Future Kind Essential Vegan Multivitamin

Despite the name, the panel lists three nutrients, vitamin D3, B12 and algal omega-3 oil. Two softgels give 50 mcg of D3 as cholecalciferol from lichen, 400 mcg of B12 as methylcobalamin and adenosylcobalamin, and 900 mg of algal oil carrying 135 mg of EPA and 270 mg of DHA. The softgel is modified tapioca starch, glycerin and water.

Future Kind says it combined those three nutrients and removed everything vegans don’t need. Iodine is among what’s missing from the panel, and so are iron and zinc. One bottle is $29 for 30 days of softgels on Future Kind’s own store, about 97 cents a day (our arithmetic). Buy it if B12 and D3 with an algae oil in one bottle is what you wanted from a multi. Don’t buy it if it would be your only source of iodine.

Thorne Basic Nutrients 2/Day

A testing claim spelled out on the page, and no vegan claim. The page says the product is NSF Certified for Sport, which it describes as testing for label claims and for nearly 300 substances banned in sport. The capsule is hypromellose, and Thorne’s own badges on the page include dairy free.

Two lines on the panel are why that gap counts. The vitamin D is 50 mcg of cholecalciferol with no source given, and part of the vitamin A is palmitate, also with no source. Our article on whether vitamin D3 is vegan explains why an unsourced D3 is the question to ask the maker. It is 2 capsules a day at $40 for 60, about $1.33 a day (our arithmetic). Thorne also uses methylcobalamin and L-5-MTHF folate, if those are forms you look for. Skip it until Thorne says on the page that it is vegan.

Centrum Adults

The drugstore default, read from the label artwork Haleon publishes. The ingredient list names no gelatin. It also gives no source for the cholecalciferol or the magnesium stearate, and the label makes no vegan claim. Centrum’s FAQ describes vitamin D3 as found in animal-sourced foods and made in human skin in sunlight, without saying where the D3 in its tablets comes from. Elsewhere in the range, the same brand’s Multi + Omega-3 products contain fish oil from tuna.

The B12 is 6 mcg, under the Vegan Society’s 10 mcg daily floor. Iodine at 150 mcg and iron at 18 mg are both at 100% of the Daily Value. Don’t buy it as a vegan multi. Buy Deva’s tablet instead, or, if what you want is a big-brand bottle from the pharmacy, a separate B12 that says vegan on the label.

D2 or D3 in a daily tablet

All four Deva products use vitamin D2, 20 mcg of ergocalciferol a tablet, and Deva’s prenatal page calls it a vegan source. VEG 1 and Future Kind are the two here that name a non-animal source for their D3, lichen. Thorne and Centrum use D3 and don’t say where it comes from.

Centrum’s own FAQ calls D3 the more potent form. NIH’s Office of Dietary Supplements says both forms raise blood levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D, and that research shows D3 raises them further and keeps them higher for longer. A 2012 meta-analysis of randomized trials in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition also found D3 more efficacious overall. When it split the trials by how the vitamin was given, though, the advantage held for large bolus doses and “the effect was lost with daily supplementation”. A multivitamin is a daily dose. If you would rather have D3 anyway, the lichen D3 in VEG 1 and Future Kind is the one here with a stated source.

Iron: in the tablet or not

Four of the eight contain iron: Deva’s One Daily at 18 mg, its prenatal at 21 mg, its Tiny Tablets at 9 mg and Centrum Adults at 18 mg. The rest have none.

Centrum’s label carries this warning: “Accidental overdose of iron-containing products is a leading cause of fatal poisoning in children under 6”. MedlinePlus says children can sometimes develop iron poisoning by swallowing too many iron supplement pills. Deva’s product pages don’t show that warning, so read the bottle when it arrives, and keep any iron-containing multi where a child can’t reach it.

For adults, the choice is the RDA arithmetic in the iron-free entry above, settled with a blood test and your doctor. Every product here except VEG 1 and Future Kind also carries zinc, from 5 mg in the Tiny Tablets to 16.5 mg in the prenatal; our article on whether vegans get enough zinc has the upper limit and what counts toward it.

What a multivitamin won’t settle

The US Preventive Services Task Force, in its 2022 recommendation for community-dwelling adults who are not pregnant, found the evidence insufficient to weigh the benefits and harms of multivitamins for preventing heart disease or cancer. In the same document it recommends against beta carotene or vitamin E supplements for that purpose. The recommendation does not apply to children, to anyone pregnant or who may become pregnant, or to people who are chronically ill, hospitalized or have a known nutritional deficiency. Read the table for what each tablet contains, and read none of them as prevention.

The vegan claim on any of these is the maker’s own. FDA says that by law it does not approve dietary supplements or their labeling, so FDA does not check “vegan” on a bottle before it ships. A Vegan Society registration, which Deva says covers all four of its tablets here, is the only outside check on a vegan claim we found in this set. The Society’s own trademark list carries Deva’s Vegan Multivitamin, Iron Free Vegan Multivitamin One Daily, Vegan Prenatal Multivitamin and Tiny Tablets Multivitamin and Mineral.

Picking one

Buy Deva’s One Daily, with iron or without it according to your blood test, if none of NCCIH’s cautions above apply to you. If you are pregnant or breastfeeding, take the prenatal. If a thyroid condition or your medicines rule it out, take the Tiny Tablets with a separate B12, and show the label to your doctor. If you would rather take B12 on its own, our roundup of vegan B12 supplements compares seven.