Multivitamins

Recently, a study was done on seniors and found that taking multivitamins did nothing to improve health. I had always wondered about whether our bodies can actually use vitamins that have been extracted from their natural source or man made.

I suspect that having apple juice gets us no vitamin C--unless it's freshly juiced. We do funky stuff to our food. Did you know that half a grapefruit contains all the vitamin c you need in a day? On the other hand, a 300mL bottle of grapefruit juice contains no vitamin c. What the heck did we do to that poor grapefruit?

Then when you consider all the vitamin no-no's that people don't tell you. Did you know that iron and vitamin c shouldn't mix? Same with calcium and vitamin c. But multivitamins contain them side by side by side. Who knows what the benefits are. Or if there are any.