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
It doesn’t matter for the purposes of vitamins, but fruits and vegetables have fiber and all sorts of phytochemicals with demonstrated or hypothesised health benefits, which you are missing out on if you only take pills.
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