The whole point of a holistic approach to eating is that the whole is more than the sum of its parts. This refutes the entire notion of big food companies that specific ingredients must be purchased from them and ingested - that we need to take supplements to be healthy. It just doesn’t wash.
Herbs are a case in point. Humans have been eating herbs for thousands of years for good reason - it makes them healthy. In the case of Thyme what follows is a listing of just the antioxidants that have been identified in the leaf of Thymus vulgaris or Common Thyme:
Alanine, anethole essential oil, apigenin, ascorbic acid, beta-carotene, caffeic acid, camphene, carvacrol, chlorogenic acid, chrysoeriol, derulic acid, eriodictyol, eugenol, 4-terpinol, gallic acid, gamma-terpinene, isichlorogenic acid, isoeugenol, isothymonin, kaemferol, labiatic acid, lauric acid, linalyl acetate, luteolin, methionine, myrcene, myristic acid, naringenin, rosmarinic acid, selenium, tannin, thymol, trytophan, ursolic acid, vanillic acid
It’s not nice to fool with Mother Nature.
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