Whole Food Supplements: Fact or Fiction
Nearly all the vitamins available on the market including those that claim as "whole food supplements" aren't made from natural ingredients or food at all .
Conventional vitamins are isolated or synthetic forms of very specific ingredients that are unstandardized and insufficient nutritional sources . The doses you find in traditional vitamins are more, and often many times greater than those found in food items . The synthetics and isolates are cheap to make they take up very little space in a capsule or tablet they are standardised and have a stable shelf life . Because of this, they are very convenient for vitamin manufacturers to use and are not natural.
Another reason why these synthetics and isolates are so extensively used is that FDA labeling requirements are tilted in favor of them, which makes it extremely difficult for anyone to make a supplement us