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Vitamins like minerals are beneficial to our body. Vitamins do not work alone in the body system. One type of vitamin may help the adsorption of the other into the blood stream. Sometimes, vitamin is required for the normal function of a mineral to operate. At other times, minerals are needed for vitamins to be adsorbed into the body. For instant, calcium is only adsorbed by the body in the presence of vitamin D.

Taking vitamins with the correct food helps in the absorption and storage of vitamins in the body system. Most vitamins are fat-soluble. As such, when vitamins are taken with food, the fat in the food will help to absorb the vitamins and carry them into the body. If vitamins are not taken with the appropriate food, vitamins taken into the body may be loss or only partially adsorb.

Sometimes, vitamins may harm the body when taken with an empty stomach. For people with weak stomach, vitamin C has to be buffered before taking so that the vitamin will not attack the stomach. Taking vitamins with an empty stomach may also cause other disturbances like nausea and heartburn which ends up harming the body.

Due to the busy schedule, there has being an increase number of people eating outside food instead of home-cooked food. As such, there is a need to supplement the process food with vitamins which helps to provide the lack of vitamins from our everyday meals.

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