While some believe food lacks nutrients, it does not. Some believe supplements provide energy or enhance performance, but they do not. Supplements cannot cure disease, such as cancer, heart disease, and the common cold. Choosing single nutrients to excess impacts the use of other nutrients. These are just some of the relationships among nutrients.
New products come to market often with health claims.
The first two usually make claims to benefit health, and prevent or treat disease. The latter two are usually bioengineered to add or enhance disease-preventing substances in the food. Fruits and vegetables that have been dehydrated and formed into a pill is one example of a designer food claiming to take the place of natural foods an individual intakes. Don't waste your money. Fresh and frozen fruits and vegetables have no equal.