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The best one-a-day vitamin

13 August 2001

All of us dream about magic bullets - the one single thing that is going to be the key to health. Perhaps the best embodiment of this idea is the all-in-one multivitamin and mineral supplement. These promise to offer up all the essential micronutrients we need in one single pill.

The problem is, getting all of the 25 or so nutrients you need every day of your life is a tall order. It’s also expensive. Consequently, multivitamins can be hideously expensive, or so diluted with such small amounts of each nutrient that they are no better for you than swallowing cottonwool (and probably even less palatable). So, the big question in deciding which one-a-day vitamin to take is whether it has enough of everything you need at an affordable price.

The other question is whether all those nutrients crammed into a single supplement stay potent over a reasonable length of time.

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