Every article I read says you should primarily get your vitamins through fruits and vegetables and other whole foods rather than multivitamin pills. But if you look at the nutritional facts on say, a bag of spinach or cup of fruit, the % daily value seems way lower than a regular multivitamin, and you’d need to eat a ton of fruits/veggies to get a comparable intake (a single serving of spinach is usually almost an entire bag).
What am I missing?
In: Biology
Because vitamins are not the only healthy components of fruits and vegetables. Fruits and veggies also contain:
Fiber, which is necessary for digestive health
Minerals
Other beneficial compounds like bioflavonoids (like quercetin), polyphenols, carotenoids (like lycopene), antioxidants, sulfur-containing compounds, etc.
You can’t replace all that with a pill.
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