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
A vitamin is a single molecule that we managed to identify in a lab, likely because somebody with a goofy diet developed symptoms of a deficiency, and the deficiency was treated with that molecule that was found in the food they weren’t eating.
Plants have lots and lots of molecules in them. Many of them could be important to your health even if we haven’t identified them and put them in a pill yet. Plus you get fiber and energy and a sense of satiety and the great taste of food.
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