> Listmates,
>
> Do you know of any liquid or powder supplements that can be hidden
in water, OJ, milk or food? Especially zinc, B6, magnesium, biotin,
calcium d-glucarate, and probiotics? I am desperate.
>

We use Solgar brand chelated magnesium (magnesium glycinate) and
chelated zinc (zinc glycinate) with our son. These both have bland
tastes. I use a mortar and pestle to grind the tablets to a fine
powder and mix with other minerals, water, and xanthan gum to make a
mineral liquid suspension. Our son does not mind this being mixed in
with his almond/rice milk. You might be able to slip some powdered
tablets into some kind of food or drink.

B6 and some other B vitamins taste horrible. We use 100% unsweetened
cranberry juice to mask the taste of the B vitamins we give our son.
We make our own vitamin liquid by opening capsules into the cranberry
juice, adding some Xanthan gum to suspend what doesn't dissolve, and
then adding Splenda to sweeten it up a bit (you could use stevia if
you want to avoid Splenda). I'm not sure this will help much in your
situation. One crazy idea that I have not tried would be to make
some B-vitamin jello with unsweetened cranberry juice, gelatin,
sweetener of choice, Xanthan gum (to keep suspension until the
gelatin takes over) and B-vitamins. This might actually taste good
if the concentration of B-vitamins is not too high.

The powdered probiotics we have used (Culturelle, Kirkman's
acidophilus plus powder) don't have too bad of a taste and could
probably be mixed with milk or something like applesauce.

Sean