re: #155 researchok

What is the best way to make sure you are consuming enough antioxidants?

Not get cancer.

Otherwise, I would just eat whole foods. The less processed something is, the more micronutrients it’s going to have. Processed foods may have nutrients supplemented, and may have all sorts of stuff replaced, but the truth is we have no idea what microelements and micronutrients we lose during processing, or how much to supplement, or even if we can supplement them in a manner that is absorbed.

B12, for instance, is a vitamin we know something about. If you eat a steak, which has B12, you absorb it fine. If you just add it to food, you won’t absorb it. Who knows what you’re absorbing and not absorbing when they add all the supplemental nutrients and such? However, clearly we have evolved to absorb this sort of stuff somehow, so the best bet is to eat less processed crap and cook more.