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
There are studies that showed that taking only vitamins, minerals, calories and essential nutirents will still lead to deficiency.
The current theory is that the way food interacts with each other in the gut will lead to better nutrient extraction. So vitamins are not as efficient as “real food”.
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