vitamins

Question 1

A

Answer 1

Liver, pumpkin, sweet potatoes, whole milk, cheese, carrots, egg yolk, cod, and cantaloupe
-Beta-carotene is an antioxidant. Helps to form skin, bone, teeth, and mucous membranes and keeps them healthy.
-Promotes night vision.
-Infections and vision problems
- Nausea, dizziness, headache, dermatitis, coma, and death

Question 2

D

Answer 2

–fortified dairy products, fortified margarine, fatty fish, beef liver, and eggs (The body can make vitamin D using the energy of sunlight on the skin.) Helps to harden bones and teeth. Necessary to absorb calcium.
-Rickets in children and bone softening and deformity in adults
-Rare but serious, nausea, vomiting, anorexia, kidney stones and damage, and mental and physical growth retardation

Question 3

E

Answer 3

-Vegetable oils, fortified cereals, tomatoes, peanut butter, leafy vegetables, avocadoes, whole grains, sunflower seeds, nuts, and asparagus
-Acts as an antioxidant, helping to slow down cell-damaging processes. Helps cells to communicate with each other.
-Helps protect skin from ultraviolet light damage.
- anticoagulant

Question 4

K

Answer 4

Made by intestinal bacteria Food sources include spinach, meat, asparagus, beans, eggs, and strawberries
-Helps blood to clot.
-Excessive bleeding
-No toxicity symptoms reported

Question 5

b12

Answer 5

-Sardines, salmon, cod, scallops, fortified breakfast cereals, yogurt, milk, and veal
Helps develop and maintain nervous system.
-Essential for red blood cell formation and DNA production. Assists with protein, carbohydrate, and fat metabolism.
-Tongue soreness and erythema, dandruff, heart palpitations, pallor, nervousness, peripheral neuropathy, forgetfulness, and macrocytic anemia
-No toxicity symptoms reported