whole food vitamins

YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT WHOLE FOOD VITAMINS

If for you quality and natural are important, you should pay attention the source of your vitamins is whole food. So, is your supplement a synthetic or made up in lab vitamin? If it is a whole food vitamin then the company will usually be proud to advertise as such and list the source of the vitamin. Here are the critical points, you should know about whole food vitamins.

Don’t ever select a vitamin based solely on price point. When you decide on what is an acceptable quality, then comparison shop for that similar quality vitamin so you are comparing oranges with oranges and apples with apples. Watch out for companies with well recognized names who have purchasing power.

Your body prefers to absorb vitamins and other nutrients from natural or whole foods. In other words, these are foods in their natural, unprocessed or unpolished states. Therefore, most health and wellness experts agree that whole food sources of vitamins and minerals and other nutrients are superior. Your body will absorb and utilize the whole food vitamins more than synthetic.

Remember, avoid artificial flavoring and colors. Vague labels with minimal information are strong indicators of lower quality.

Find out if your vitamin is made by a company with rigorous quality control standards that are validated by a third party certification provider such as the NSF or ISO. Your vitamin needs to be NSF or ISO certified. The product should have the high quality ingredients and manufacturing process that a company claims.

Vitamins are supplements. Just as all dietary supplements, they are not cure alls for disease states. The question is frequently asked, who should take vitamins? Use a vitamin that is from a whole food source and that is NSF or ISO certified. Choose a supplement based on quality not price.

Doctors Health and Your Money

Did you know that if you stop wasting the best part of your health food you can avoid patronizing the doctor?

The skin and pulp of many fruits usually contain more nutrients than the fruit itself. And most nutrients are in the skin of a fruit or vegetable. Peeling fruits and vegetables is a waste.

Apples

Almost half of the vitamin C content is just underneath the skin. Eating the skin also increases insoluble fiber content.

Grapes

Eating grapes, drinking dark grape juice that is made with skins, or eating raisins may be just as heart-healthy as drinking wine, without the health hazards of alcohol.

Lemons

The yellow part of the skin (zest) of lemons has most of the lemonades in the fruit.

Oranges

As with grapefruit, the white membrane under the skin of the orange contains more vitamin C than the flesh and a lot of the pectin fiber. The part of an orange or lemon that has the highest concentration of the very valuable nutrients, citrus bioflavonoid, is the pulp in the skin which is usually discarded.

Also, the highest concentration of flavor is in the outermost, color layer of the skin.

Pears

Most of the vitamin C in pears is concentrated in the skin. A medium sized pear provides 4 grams of fiber, half of which is pectin (a carbohydrate found in the skin and seeds). Pectin has been found to reduce cholesterol levels, which in turn may reduce the risk of heart disease.

Rice

Brown rice takes longer to cook than polished white rice, but most of the goodness is in the brown stuff that is removed.

Wheat

There are 3 parts to the wheat grain. They are starch, germ, and bran. The food processors remove the last two and sell them back to you as bran and wheat germ, because these are the only good parts of wheat. Starch just makes you fat.

Taste of Skins

Some of these skins have a strong flavor which you may find unpleasant. The answer is to blend with something more pleasant. Orange zest for example tastes great if you blend it with the rest of the orange. Dried fruit are excellent to change the flavor. Peanut paste can hide even the taste of medicine, but make sure that you are not allergic to it.

Warning

Non-organically grown apples and soft fruits are heavily sprayed so there is a real chance of low level poisoning.

Apple cores concentrate agricultural poisons so don’t use them if not organically (without agricultural chemicals) grown.

If you can’t buy organic produce you can buy special surfactants intended for washing your fruit and vegetables. Most of the chemicals don’t wash off in plain hot water.