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Molecule of Vitamin A
In the body, it exists as Retinol from retinal, Retinoic acid and retinyl phosphate. These molecules are altered by oxygen in the air, changes accelerated by light and heat.
Foods of animal origin (meat, dairy products and especially liver) contain retinol and retinyl esters, whereas plants contain predominantly carotenes which are precursors of retinol. One molecule [...]
Classification of Vitamin
A vitamin is a nutrient that an organism such as human needs, but the organism is not in itself sufficiently to make. Initially it was thought that all vitamins had an amine structure, something not proved to be wrong. The name, coined by Casimir Funk, is a compilation of vital and amine. In the naming [...]
Sources of Vitamins A, B, C, and D
Vitamins from the B-group will include in yeast and liver. These vitamins are alcoholics sometimes a deficit by a deficient diet, resulting in severe disease (the absence of disease Beri – Beri in Asia cause by most Vitamin A is a fat soluble substance. Vitamins from the B-group will include in yeast and liver. These [...]
Proper Dosage For Vitamin A and C
Thus vitamin A are Teratogenic when used by more than 9 times the RDA per day. A safe daily intake for pregnant women is up 3 to 4 times the RDA (equivalent to approximately 2500 to 3000 lg (micro grams)) per day. The legal limits for vitamin A in food (well below these levels) the [...]
Vitamins and Minerals For the Body
Vitamins and minerals in foods that come before, that everybody knows. But what vitamin or mineral that is exactly where – that has been a lot harder. In this chapter you have them all in a row, with the food which they concentrated. Vitamins are also not only from the diet. The body can itself [...]