Phytochemicals are plant-bound chemicals that maintain healthy plant life. New research shows that phytochemicals could also be a major key in human health. Scientists estimate that a single tomato can include more than 6,000 different phytochemicals.
The function of phytochemicals varies from being strong antioxidants (helping the cells live longer), to strengthening the immune system, to inhibiting cancer cell growth and changing precancerous cells back to normal cells, to destroying already-formed cancer cells.
Some phytochemical families include: allyl sulfides, found in garlic and onions; indoles, found in broccoli, cabbage, kale and cauliflower; isoflavones, found in soybeans; and phenolic acids, found in tomatoes, citrus fruits and carrots.
Why so much about vitamins and phytochemicals? Because you need to see that there’s no comparison between organic whole food and whole food supplements like SupremeFood— loaded with vitamins and all their cofactors, minerals, trace minerals, enzymes, and phytochemicals to make a complete vitamin mineral food supplement — and synthetic vitamins, which have little to no cofactors, no enzymes, and no phytochemicals, but instead have added chemicals, preservatives, and fillers.
The next question in evaluating vitamins and minerals is, “Where do they come from?” All vitamins and minerals were not created equal. Let’s look at where vitamins and minerals come from, if they are not totally synthetic.
According to the United States Pharmacopoeia (U.S.P.), if two products look similar in analysis, then they are identical, regardless of what they are made of. Take salicylic acid, for instance. It is considered the same product whether it comes from wintergreen leaves or from boiling coal in carbolic and sulfuric acids. Similarly, glycerin, according to the U.S.P., is the same whether it comes from fresh vegetables or from boiled-down animal bones and joints with toxic minerals.
You can see now that labels can be deceiving, because you cannot always know what you are really buying and consuming.
But you can know what you are consuming with products like SupremeFood.
For instance, most so-called “natural” vitamin supplements are made out of some not-so-nice substances. All “natural” Vitamin B-12 is made from either cow’s liver (which is toxic) or from activated sewage sludge. That’s not the case with SupremeFood, where the Vitamin B-12 comes from Hawaiian blue-green algae — spirulina. Most other “natural” B vitamins come from coal tar and petro-chemicals, whereas in SupremeFood it comes from non-active nutritional yeast.
The choice is yours: God-made? Or toxic pseudo-natural or synthetic?
Minerals are much the same story. When you take multi-mineral supplements, you are usually taking ground-up rocks, shells and metals. These are great for plant fertilizer, but not for human consumption.
Here’s the best way to get the minerals we need: God created plants to draw inorganic mineral (rocks and metals) out of the soil and assimilate them for health and strength. In turn, God designed man to eat plants that have already converted these inorganic minerals into organic plant-bound minerals, which are nearly 100 percent absorbable in the human body. This is why one can take horse-pill-sized calcium supplements for 30 years and still end up with osteoporosis. Your body simply was not designed to absorb inorganic minerals from the earth (which most commercial minerals are.)
But your body was designed to absorb organic plant-bound minerals from eating fruit and vegetables. This is why the calcium from broccoli and kale is much better than from horse-pill-sized calcium supplements. Not only does the plant form of calcium absorb at the highest possible percentage, it also has all the other health-promoting cofactors’ vitamins, enzymes and phytochemicals.
Another point to consider: Many synthetic supplements pass through the stomach, intestinal tract and down into the toilet, virtually undigested. An owner of a portable toilet service said that he saw so many vitamin pills in the toilets that he could build a mound out of them. He also said he could even read the brand name on many of the pills. How is that for absorption? 

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