DOES your multivitamin deliver the nutrition you need? Or do you opt for timed-released multis?

Not all multivitamins are the same and many are short of the daily value they’re supposed to contain.

From Colleen Pierre’s post in Prevention.com, she said most people are taking the wrong multivitamin, that is, a pill that does not deliver the nutrients especially needed and, in some cases, can actually be a barrier to better health.

Since multivitamins are recognized as nutrition supplement, many people do not know how to choose the healthiest multi for them.

According to Pierre, time-released multivitamins may sound good but not beneficial at all.

Medical studies suggest that timed-release supplements might really shortchange on folic acid, a vitamin critical to preventing birth defects and possibly for reducing heart disease and colon cancer.

Folic acid is said to be absorbed high in the small intestine, just after it leaves the stomach. So if the folic acid is released later, a person misses its importance and won't be absorbed anymore by the body.

What we should look for in a  multivitamin  is it disintegrates quickly and dissolves completely.

How does a pill work  after you swallow it? The stomach first churns it and causes it to disintegrate or fall into small pieces.

That disintegration allows the nutrients to dissolve in your stomach acids and get absorbed in your small intestine.

In finished researches of Stephen Hoag, PhD, at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy in Baltimore, he learned that multis that disintegrated quickly were the ones that also dissolved and delivered.

To see if your multi disintegrates quickly, drop it into ½ cup of vinegar. Stir gently every now and then. In 20 minutes, your vitamin should be completely separated into tiny pieces. If not, choose another brand.