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
Problem one : If your are in the US or Canada then there are no controls over what is really in a “vitamin” pill. Some have been found to be made of compressed plant stems.
Problem two: The human body has spent hundreds of thousands of years getting its nutrients from food. So thats what it does best . Hundreds of thousands of years vs about fifty for “vitamin” pills.
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