Many Americans do not eat enough fruits and vegetables. The USDA recommends three to five daily servings of vegetables, and two to four servings of fruit. In fact, the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans propose half of your plate at any given meal should be fruits and veggies. If you are not eating fruits and vegetables, there is a chance to may be deficient in certain vitamins and minerals, which can be corrected by supplementing with vitamins or a multivitamin.

Drinking alcohol regularly can deplete many important vitamins in your body. If you drink alcohol daily, you should consider a multivitamin.

Taking multivitamins can be beneficial to health for people who don’t get the proper nutrients from a balanced diet. Many people find it difficult to eat a balanced and healthy diet, and multivitamins can help fill the nutritional gaps.

For more information about multivitamins, see this set of reference articles.

https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Mvms-HealthProfessional/

https://nutritionj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1475-2891-13-72

http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/152/2/149.full