Most vitamins found today in pharmacies and health food stores are not whole food supplements.  They are generally synthetic forms of the vitamins and minerals that are extracted using various chemicals and often lack the important cofactors and accessory nutrients required for the proper absorption and digestion of the vitamins and minerals. VitaTree™ Whole food supplements include all components, as they are found in nature.  The body recognizes and uses the whole food supplement and all its phytonutrients as designed by nature.

A good example is beta-carotene. Almost all of the beta-carotene available to buy in supplement form is an isolated synthetic compound made from acetylene gas.
Beta-carotene is part of a family of anti-oxidants called carotenoids. It is never found alone in nature. For example, carrots and tomatoes have alpha-carotene, beta-carotene, cantozantheen, gamma-carotene, omega-carotene, etc. And although beta-carotene is a great antioxidant, cantozantheen is already known to be even more effective as an antioxidant. Therefore by isolating beta-carotene from its entire family of carotenoids the even more beneficial antioxidant has been eradicated.

It is very difficult to get all the nutrients we need from food.  Our soils have been depleted from over-farming for years.  The present amount of pollution we face daily increases our bodies’ needs for VitaTree™ whole food nutrients.  This means we would need to consume four to five times the amount of food as usual in order to get all the nutrients required in a day.

When we eat food, the nutrient composition of the food is in the perfect balance for those nutrients to be best absorbed. Synthetic vitamins lose this important quality in their processing. The next best thing to good quality food is a VitaTree™ vitamin made from the foods that are whole and unprocessed.  Whole food means that the whole plant is used, not just the isolated nutrient that has been chemically denatured like most vitamins.