Our bodies cannot absorb all the nutrients found in the foods. So Multivitamin and multimineral supplements are specifically designed to provide a variety of both essential and/or non-essential nutrients for the body. Multivitamin supplements can help to prevent both vitamin and mineral deficiencies, and are used by many to increase essential nutrients in the body to achieve additional health benefits.

Multivitamins usually contain at least 100, if not more, of the recommended dietary allowance of essential vitamins. While not all multivitamins contain minerals, in the case of high potency multivitamins, mineral content may also exceed 100 of Daily Value or U.S. Recommended Allowance (USRDA).

Multivitamins are prescribed for patients who need extra vitamins, who cannot eat enough food to obtain the required vitamins, or who cannot receive the full benefit of the vitamins contained in the food they eat.”

Even if you eat plenty of calories, if you’re not eating fruits and vegetables then your body may be lacking crucial nutrients

Multivitamins are only beneficial for some groups of people: with a very-low-calorie weight-loss diet; strict vegetarians; heavy alcohol drinkers; and individuals who are not getting an adequate diet because they are too sick or too poor and are unable to prepare proper meals for themselves.