Health and Personal Care Nutrition and Fitness Vitamins and Supplements Multiple Vitamin Mineral Supplements
Ok, so just because it needs to be said first: don't take vitamins or dietary supplements instead of eating nutritious foods. In order for your body to reasonably absorb minerals and vitamins, it needs to be exposed to them gradually and regularly. If you're already someone who has a healthy diet and you just want to ensure that you're getting a well balanced exposure to all those beneficial micronutrients, then you're in the best shape to add a mineral supplement to the game. It's recommended that most vegetarians take a mineral supplement because they must monitor that they are getting all those essential proteins and amino acids more regularly found in meat.
How to Choose
There are so many vitamins out there on the market it's important to be a bit discerning as you shop for yours. Avoid mineral supplements that boast megadoses of some vitamin or another. You want one that contains, within its active ingredients, 100% the daily value of the vitamin. Also, to make sure what you're putting in your body isn't full of crud and weird ingredients fostered in labs, check to see that "USP" is visible on your vitamin's label. That means that it meets purity standards.
