But vitamins by themselves aren't very useful to the body because the body can't grab onto them. When you are in a restaurant and the waitress comes over with the pitcher of water, she's holding it by the handle. If she tried to hold it by the side, it would probably slip out of her hand. A similar thing happens in our bodies when we take vitamins in isolation. They slip in and out of the cells, pass out through the urine because there is no handle for the body to grab onto them.
Minerals provide the handle so the body can use vitamins.
The value in getting your nutrition from this superfood is you've got nearly all of the vitamins in a form the body can grab onto. Minerals are similar to vitamins in that they also need handles for the body to use them. In the body the 22 amino acids have an ideal ratio one to the other. Multi-vitamins might have some minerals, but very rarely do they have any amino acids. AFA not only has all 22 amino acids, but their ratio is nearly identical to the way amino acids exist in the human blood stream.