– How do we know what vitamins/minerals are in food?

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Was each food in existence studied under a microscope? How do they know it exist in it?

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we burn the food and analyze the color of the flame to see what minerals are present. Every element has a fingerprint of the wavelengths of light it absorbs when it burns.

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