Standard Process Vitamins

Does anyone remember the name of the children's liquid vitamins back in the 1950s?

I remember mom calling them by an unusual name. They came with an eye dropper to give the proper amount. It had an unusually strong aroma as well. I have smelled that aroma before when I open some vitamin containers, but for the life of me, cannot remember the original name. Keep in mind this was the late 50s and very early 60s I am referring to, if not earlier. I gave my son liquid vitamins in the 1970s, but these were not the same brand name I had as a small child. As I got older, I took Chocks and also One A Days that were little red pills. They had a tart taste, because I would chew them instead of swallowing. lol I think I must have had a very unusual palate when it came to things like that. Any help figuring out the name of those liquid vitamins would be appreciated. :) Gimp, yes I believe you are right. Still rackin' my brain here trying to remember the name. It's on the tip of my tongue. lol Help is definitely needed to come up with an answer. Sorry 'God Cares' that doesn't seem familiar. I'm guessing here,, It was one word and the last syllable was dac or dec. I may be incorrect on that. Don't want to throw anyone off trying to remember. I'm either right or wrong. True Me She, they do smell the same. Maybe we are getting close, but the Vita Drops is not the name I am looking for. This is one of those things that drives a person nuts until you find the answer..well at least me! lol

Public Comments

1. I don't remember the name but I seem to remember that they made the kids teeth turn a shade of grey.
2. I fear I can not help with the name but I'll bet a dollar it will be hours before I get that smell out of my mind. I don't know about you but that stuff smelled nasty to me and didn't taste much better. My memory seems to think it was brown in color, does that sound right to you???
3. Not a liquid but a little red pill my sister and I took every morning. I hated taking that pill so I would push mine through a small hole behind the kitchen sink. Years later when dad took the sink and counter out, there on the floor were hundreds of little red pills! Poppy
4. I found this on Google. Someone wanted to know the name and thinks it is spelled something like this "ear-doll-a" http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/406257.html
5. I only remember two liquid vitamins that came in brown bottles. Mom gave us a spoonful every morning before we left for school. I'm not sure of the spelling here so if I'm misspelling them just over look it, please. LOL One was called Geritol and the other Hattical. Would either one of these be it. They were loaded with iron and I can taste and spell them now. Ugh
6. I seem to remember them as "Vita-drops". I could verify it if I could get to my baby book...but it's at a different location! The taste & smell are something that shall never leave my mind! I once bought some vitamin paste for kittens & it smelled the same...honest!
7. I TOOK THOSE TOO...I am 60 and I was born in 48 but I can still smell and taste that stuff. It was brown colored but I cannot remember the name of it. ♥
8. The one I remember was called Travasol. Brown liquid goo that was supposed to be good for you.
9. Vita-meata-vegamin , made by Lucy Ricardo :)
10. I can remember my mom giving nasty smelling liquid vitamins to my little brother in 1954-55. I seem to remember the name Abdec. They came in a brown bottle & had a dropper in the bottle for easy use. Does this ring a bell with you?
11. I can't think of the name but I can smell it, I will ask my sister in the morning carmellia You crack me up vita meeta vegamin haha
12. I know the smell you refer to. Are you sure it wasn't something for iron deficiency, instead of vitamins? I had to take a teaspoon of a brown sweet gooey liquid for my iron dosage. And then a teaspoon of cod liver oil for my vitamins before school too. I was always sickly as a child until my tonsils came out. So if mom had known about a liquid vitamin, she would have had me on that too. I hated cod liver oil, and that iron stuff. That was in the late 40's thru the early 50's.
13. Polyvisol (sp ?). The liquid vitamins prescribed for babies.
14. one-a-day??
15. I recall mum using Pluravit vitamin drops in a brown bottle with a dropper. This was brown in color and smelt like a vitamin( sounds weird) but it just did.
16. IDK what they were called but they smelled so strong! My sis would bathe her baby and then give him the vitamins and naturally he would spit them out!!!