There is a big difference between the two. If just one of the nutrients is isolated and used for its known effects on the body (as in vitamin & mineral supplements), it will not have the same tonic effect as it will as a whole natural food. This is known as a synergism – the combination has a different and more enhanced effect than the individual components would have. However, it does not mean that a product made with a combination of several isolated vitamins and / or minerals is considered as effective as a whole food supplement. Although a combination of several isolated vitamins and / or minerals may create some "synergism", they are still isolated nutrients, not whole food.

Our bodies digest, absorb and utilize the nutrients from these isolated nutritional supplements far less than from whole food supplements.

More than a half of what you would be taking would simply be flushed right out of your body. Worse, some of these isolated nutrients could accumulate in your body burdening your liver and kidneys. Your body simply has a hard time recognizing nutrients in isolated vitamin / mineral supplements. Your body does recognize and utilize, to the fullest, the nutritional values from whole foods and whole food supplements. Unlike vitamin supplements, Cryptomonadales® is a complete whole food. The whole plant gives you the advantage of all the protoplasmic elements that aid in the growth and development of your cells.

In fact, no other vitamin or mineral can ever replace the value of a whole food