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It doesn't work like that because real food has millions of god-know-which chemicals that act in tandem with the micronutrients being absorbed. If those chemic

It doesn't work like that because real food has millions of god-know-which chemicals that act in tandem with the micronutrients being absorbed. If those chemical are not present the absorption in the gut will not work or might not be as effective. This "eat and it will be absorbed" is a severe error: the absorption process is an INTERACTION of many things, not just individual stuff being absorbed independently. This is why it's a severe error to isolate stuff into a new processed food and claim it will have the same results as the foods that it was made from: the processing will remove god knows which chemicals and will then eg modify it by heat which modifies stuff even further: thus you end with a totaly different substance in the end. This is why saying stuff like "we grow meat from bacteria to replace real meat" is ridiculous since real meat is a lot more than just "protein".

jjeaff 4y ago
I wonder if the same applies to naturally grown fruits and vegetables today. Because most varieties of fruits and vegetables are selectively bred over millennia to produce bigger, sweeter, more shelf stable versions such that many modern versions would be unrecognizable to those from the past.
- oifjsidjf 4y ago
  It probably does, must fruits and veggies that we know of didn't exist ~500 years ago. All modern fruits are sugar bombs compared to "old" fruits. Old fruits were more bitter and much smaller. Quick changes through breeding might change their nutritional composition also, not just sugar. A great example is Weston Prices's book "nutrition and physical degeneration" where he clearly shows that whenever processed foods (sugar and white flour based products) entered isolated cultures their teeth got destroyed asap. And destroyed teeth are only the most visible side effect, god knows what else is happening to our bodies.
bergenty 4y ago
We don’t know this. This is speculation on your part (for what it’s worth, it does sound feasible). As pointed out by vlod, eating supplements with your meals should solve this, at least partially.

jjeaff 4y ago

I wonder if the same applies to naturally grown fruits and vegetables today. Because most varieties of fruits and vegetables are selectively bred over millennia to produce bigger, sweeter, more shelf stable versions such that many modern versions would be unrecognizable to those from the past.

oifjsidjf 4y ago
It probably does, must fruits and veggies that we know of didn't exist ~500 years ago. All modern fruits are sugar bombs compared to "old" fruits. Old fruits were more bitter and much smaller. Quick changes through breeding might change their nutritional composition also, not just sugar. A great example is Weston Prices's book "nutrition and physical degeneration" where he clearly shows that whenever processed foods (sugar and white flour based products) entered isolated cultures their teeth got destroyed asap. And destroyed teeth are only the most visible side effect, god knows what else is happening to our bodies.

bergenty 4y ago

We don’t know this. This is speculation on your part (for what it’s worth, it does sound feasible). As pointed out by vlod, eating supplements with your meals should solve this, at least partially.