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Vitamin Basics

Vitamin

Basics-KEY

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Vitamin

Function

Sources

Prevents

Promotes good vision and

Liver, oranges,

Night blindness,

helps maintain tissues and

pears, yellow

poor skin and

skin

fruits and veggies

hair

Helps maintain levels of

milk

Rickets

calcium and phosphorus in

the blood.

Valued as an antioxidant

Green leafy

Overdose causes

and growth of cell

vegetables, fruits,

blurred vision,

membranes

whole grains,

nausea,

liver, apples, oil,

dizziness

fats

Helps blood clot

Dark green

Hemorrhaging

vegetables,

cabbage,

cauliflower, liver

C Ascorbic

Helps heal wounds; helps

Citrus fruits,

Scurvy

Acid

maintain healthy

cantaloupe,

capillaries, bones, skin and

mango, kiwi,

teeth.

broccoli

B1 Thiamine

Helps turn carbohydrates

Milk, whole

Beriberi

into energy, keeps nervous

grains, poultry,

system healthy.

fish, dried beans

B2 Riboflavin

Helps release energy from

Milk, whole

Premature aging

carbs; promotes growth

grains, dark green

and red cell production

vegetables, fish,

eggs

Niacin

Promotes healthy nervous

Milk, whole

Pellagra

system and energy

grains, dates,

metabolism

peaches, fish,

poultry, peanuts

Folacin

Helps build red blood cells

Oranges, dark

Anemia, certain

and synthesize DNA;

green vegetables,

birth defects

prevents certain birth

whole grains,

defects.

meat, eggs

B6 Pyridoxine

Promotes a healthy

Meat, vegetables,

Poor health

immune and nervous

bananas

system.

B12

Used in making genetic

Milk, eggs, meat,

Anemia, damage

Cobalamin

materials, cells, bone

fruit, and

to intestinal tract

marrow and red blood cells

vegetables

 2010

Vitamin Basics

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