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
One is that a multivitamin has everything at once, and many things require transport proteins and channels to absorb, which get saturated. Another is that fruits and vegetables have non-vitamin compounds that are good for you, like polyphenols and anthocyanins.
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