Vitamins

• Vitamins are made up of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen
• Many vitamins cant be stored or made by the body, so they need to be taken in each day. if you eat a wide variety of foods you should get all the vitamins you need, and you shouldn't need to take vitamin tablets or supplements.
• Vitamins;
• prevent illness and maintain a good health
• aid building and repair
• control the release of energy needed by the body.
• Vitamin A and Vitamin D are fat soluble, Vitamins B and c are water insoluble.

SOURCE:

Liver, egg yolk, margarine, dark leafy vegetables, red fruit and vegetables e.g. carrots, mangos.

FUNCTION:

 Healthy eyes and bone function

DEFICIENCY:

 Vision problems, dry skin, slow growth in children

EXCESS:
Orange tint to skin

SOURCE:

 margarine, breakfast cereals, produced by the action of sunlight on skin

FUNCTION:

strong teeth and bones

DEFICIENCY:

 Rickets, osteoporosis, poor development of the unbron child

EXCESS:

   can be poisonous.

 SOURCE:

 Wholegrain cereals, yeast and meat

FUNCTION

Releases energy from food

 DEFICIENCY

  Beri beri

EXCESS

  Not stored in the body

SOURCE

 leafy greem vegetables, pulses bananas.

FUNCTION

 makes red blood cells

DEFICIENCY

Neural tube defect e.g. Spina Bilfida in babies

SOURCE

 Citrus fruits, balck currents, green vegetables.

FUNCTION

Helps iron absorption

DEFICIENCY

Scurvy, slow healing wounds

EXCESS

  water soluble, so lost in urine.