Why are multivitamins the same size as other vitamins that may consist of only one vitamin or mineral?

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I use to take a zinc table 50mg that is the same size as my current multivitamins which has like a thousand vitamins/minerals compacted in it with relatively same amount of zinc.

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Do you know how small the actual vitamin quantities are? 50 mg is *50/1000 of a gram*. That’s like a grain of sand. The pills would be too small to work with, count, or take. Your breath could blow a 50mg pill out of your hand and then it would be hard to find and even harder to pick up again.

**Pills are like 95% inert filler** material just to make them easier to manufacture consistently, handle, etc.

A multivitamin with a bunch of vitamins and minerals **just uses slightly less filler.**

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