Vitamin information
Vitamin | Source | Involved with |
A Retinol or carotene | Liver, dairy produce, eggs, carrots & green leaf veg | Visual processes, connective tissue, skin |
B1 Thiamin | Meat, whole grains, legumes & nuts | Carbohydrate metabolism, CNS function |
B2 Riboflavin | Liver, dairy produce, meat, cereal | Carbohydrate metabolism, Vision & skin |
B6 Pyridoxin | Meat, fish, green leaf veg, legumes & whole grains | Protein metabolism, red blood cell formation, CNS function |
B12 Cyanocobalamin | Meat, fish & dairy produce | Red blood cell formation & CNS function |
Niacin | Liver, meat, fish , nuts & cereal products | Carbohyrate and fat metabolism |
Folic acid | Liver, legumes, green leaf veg | Regulates growth of cells incudling red blood cells |
C Ascorbic acid | Grenn leaf veg, fruit, potatoes & white bread | Connective tissue, iron, healing infection, absorption/,metabolism |
D Calciferols | Dairy produce, sunlight on skin | Calcium meatbolism, bones & teeth |
E tocopherols | Vegetable oils, liver, green leaf veg, dairy produce & whole grains | Protects vitamins A & C and protects form fatty acids from destruction in body ( anti-oxidant) |
K | Grenn leaf veg & liver | Prevents clotting of blodd &increases fat digestion |