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?
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Why is eating soup with a fork inferior to a spoon.
Same reason, the way you absorb vitamins are varied, some are fat soluble, some are not, you have 13 essential vitamins, A, C, D E K, Thiamine, Riboflavin, Niacin, Biotin, Pyridoxine, Biotine, Folate, and Cyanocobalamin, of these A, D, E and K, are notorious for being hard to get much of in multivitamin form since they are fatsoluable, so if you take some lard with the pills, they would work fairly well, however, the 9 other vitamins are water soluble, and taking those with a fat rich meal, means they are gonna be poorly picked up by the body, stop giving your body forks for the vitamin soup, and they will work well.
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