Food Synergy Explained: How Nutrients Work Together to Influence Health

https://www.news-medical.net/health/Food-Synergy-Explained-How-Nutrients-Work-Together-to-Influence-Health.aspx What happens when nutrients share a meal? From plant-based iron to dietary fats, food pairings offer clues to how the body uses what we eat. Nutrition research spent much of the 20th century focusing on single molecules like vitamin C, calcium, and beta-carotene, an approach that helped identify and treat nutrient deficiencies. Later research on chronic disease showed that isolated nutrients do not consistently reproduce the health effects associated with the foods that contain them.