Popeye first walked into E.C. Segar's Thimble Theatre comic strip on January 17, 1929. Within a few years the spinach industry was crediting the strip with a 33 percent jump in spinach consumption, and in 1937 Crystal City, Texas, the self-declared Spinach Capital of the World, put up a statue of the sailor. Getting grown adults to eat greens has always needed a mascot, a story and a little theater.

Grüns gummies are the modern version of that idea, with bears instead of a sailor. Chad Janis started the company in 2023 from a Stanford dorm room. He was a former private equity investor who had sat on the boards of Dr. Squatch, Brooklinen, Thuma, Ruggable and Chubbies, so he had watched a lot of direct-to-consumer brands grow up before he built one. The brand says a single pack holds more than 60 ingredients, over 20 vitamins and minerals, and 6 grams of prebiotic fiber, all in a pectin base that keeps it vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free and nut-free. I read the packaging as smart and the health claims as the brand's own.

The trick is to choose your bag by how you like to eat, because the flavor is what decides whether you stay with it. The first grid starts with the Original Superfoods Greens Gummies. Raspberry Lemonade and Popsicle Firecracker are the flavored bags, and the Shrek and Minions ones are the kids' tie-ins that adults will also buy for the packaging. Adult Sugar Free Superfoods, Adult Low Sugar Mango and the Sugar Free Multivitamin are the versions for anyone watching sugar.

Here is how I would choose: ask which part of your day is the problem. If it is a mid-afternoon slump, a mushroom gummy is worth a try. If it is a gym habit that has gone soft, the pre-workout is the natural fit. If it is a run of colds on the train, the Immün line is the obvious one.

The second grid is exactly those three. Immün comes in a Sugar Free and a Low Sugar version, and the Immün Sugar Free 13-in-1 Gummies, 3 Servings is a small pack for testing. Nütrops leans on nootropic mushroom claims, and it has the Sugar Free version, the Low Sugar Mushroom Gummies, 3 Servings and a Nootropic Mushroom, 2 Flavor Trial. The trial packs are the smartest thing in the grid. They let you find out whether you like the taste before you commit to a bag.

Jüced Pre-Workout comes in Sugar Free and Low Sugar, and it takes the same daily-pack habit into the gym bag. I would still treat the pre-workout as a supplement to a warm-up and not a substitute for one. All three lines keep the pectin base of the original, which is the consistent thread through the family.

What I would skip: adding all three on the same day in your first week. One at a time is the only way to learn what you like.

A test I like for any new supplement: put it next to your toothbrush, not in the cabinet. If you see it every morning, you will take it. If it lives behind the cereal, it will not last a month.

The third grid is the wider shelf. Lemme makes a Multi for women, a Debloat Daily Digestive gummy and Chill De-Stress Ashwagandha, which is a lot of jobs for one brand. OLLY offers Women's 40+ Multivitamin and an Adult Multivitamin plus Probiotic gummy, so you can pick a general multi or one with a gut bonus. Nature Made's Women Multivitamin is the plainest of the group, a good place to start if you just want a multi and nothing else. Arrae's Bloat Gummies and Plant People's WonderHydrate Electrolyte Gummies fill in the digestion and hydration side.

A pairing I like: a multi in the morning, and electrolytes on the days you sweat, and nothing more until you have a reason for it. Hydration gummies feel more useful in summer and on long travel days than in a cold office.

What I would skip: stacking a multi and an electrolyte and a digestive gummy the day you start. If your stomach gets grumpy, you will not know which one did it.

One rule for the evening shelf: pick either a probiotic or a magnesium to start, not both, and give it two weeks. The fourth grid is a busy aisle, and it rewards a slow pace.

On the gut side, Lemme's Debloat capsules pair digestive enzymes with probiotics, and Arrae's Tribiotic is a daily probiotic blend. Love Wellness's Good Girl Probiotics is a vaginal probiotic, a separate job from digestion and one worth reading the label on. On the magnesium side, Agent Nateur's holi (mag) Advanced Daily Magnesium Complex is the more indulgent bottle, Lemme's Relax Magnesium Soft Chews are the easy chew, and Arrae's Magnesium L-Threonate Triple Blend is the option with the longer name.

Then sleep. Lemme's Sleep Melatonin and Magnesium Gummies and juna's Nightcap Sleep Gummies are the two built for bedtime. Melatonin is a hormone, so the label and your doctor are the place to ask questions, especially if you take other medication or are pregnant.

What I would skip: a melatonin gummy on nights you are only mildly restless. A dark room and a fixed bedtime are less exciting and, in my experience, more reliable.

I think the best way into this category is boring: one bag of the original, every day, for a couple of weeks, before anything else joins it. Watch your energy and your stomach, and let the flavor tell you whether this is a habit or a phase.

Read the label against any medication you take, and remember that a brand now owned by Unilever, one of four Wellbeing power brands alongside Olly, Liquid I.V. and Nutrafol, is still making its own wellness claims and not citing independent trials. Popeye had a statue. You have a small bear-shaped habit and a calendar.