Parents always ask me “should I give my child a multivitamin?”

I just realized that most of the mvi on market are useless. The amount of vitamin in these are so little. 

One of the thing many people do not realize is the the Recommended Daily Intake or RDI is meant for “prevention of deficiencies”, which is a problem of the ancient times, when food scarcity was a reality. 

Therefore, even if you take a multivitamin that boasts it meets 100% of most vitamins, it is not that impressive. 

If you eat a decent nutritious whole food plant-based diet, you should be getting enough of most essential nutrients. 

The other issue with may multivitamin on the market is that it’s limited to the variety of nutrients. Plant food does not only have vitamins and minerals, but also antioxidants and phytonutrients, including those that are not yet discovered by scientists. 

You’ve heard “eat the rainbow”…no! not Skittles. 

You know how fruits and vegetables come in different colors, it’s the antioxidants that give them their pretty colors. 

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The best sources of vitamins and minerals are from natural fruits and vegetables that grow from fertile soil rich in minerals. As the plant grows, it absorbs all the nutrients and minerals from the soil. Eating these plant food will provide us with the nutrients mother earth creates for us.

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So, choose organic non-GMO. 

Of course with today’s overfarming, our food supply is at risk of depleting in nutrients. Therefore, some supplementation is necessary. 

Here’s my answer to many parents’ questions about multivitamin. 

The perfect multivitamin comes in a beverage form. Yes, a good ole homemade fruit and veggies smoothie. See I don’t call it “green smoothies” as it does not have to be green to be good.

Here’s the smoothie that I make every morning: 

1 cup kale or any other greens

1 cup frozen strawberries

1 cup frozen mango

1 cup frozen mixed berries

1 whole lemon, peeled

2 tbsp chia seeds or flaxseed or hempseed or nuts

2 tbsp raw honey

1 cup water

Put everything in a blender (VitaMix is the best) and blend on high until smooth because you don’t want to be choking on seeds.

Well, you can add and subtract or substitute to your liking. I used lemon and honey, so it’s a lemonade base. Sometimes, when I’m out of lemon, I’d use orange instead. And when there’s calamansi available, I’ll throw a couple of them whole in the smoothie. 

I guess you can throw the whole lemon in with peel. I was told the peel is good for you. After all, we make lemon zest from the peel. 

You can drink it or freeze in into popsicle and eat as snack. But I prefer to have this smoothie as breakfast in morning or after workout snack. 

You may ask about Pediasure? It’s an easy, ready to drink option. But it’s also filled with sugar (added sugar) and a lot of artificial ingredients.

Then, you need to ask yourself “does your body need that sugar and artificial ingredients?”