Vitamins

Question 1

What are the fat soluble vitamins

Answer 1

Mneumonic: KADE

Vitamin K
Vitamin A
Vitamin D
Vitamin E

Question 2

Vitamin A

Answer 2

Also called retinol

Needed for vision, immune system, cell membrane health, skin

Helps the photoreceptors of the eye. Needed for low light vision.

Question 3

Vitamin D

Answer 3

Promotes growth of healthy bones and teeth

Question 4

Vitamin K

Answer 4

blood clotting

Question 5

Vitamin E

Answer 5

Antioxidant helps protect cell membranes, stored in liver and fatty acids

It is able to take a reactive radical and stabilize it. The resulting vitamin E radical is very stable due to its resonance.

Question 6

What are the water soluble vitamins?

Answer 6

Vitamin C and Vitamin B complex

Most of these are components of coenzymes.

Riboflavin (B2) is a precursor of the electron transport carrier FAD.

Niacin (B3) is a involved with NAD

Question 7

Vitamin C

Answer 7

Involved with collagen formation

Vitamin C is a reducing agent in the hydroxylation reactions as seen when proline becomes hydroxyproline in collagen

Question 8

What is a Vitamin C deficiency called?

Answer 8

scurvy

Question 9

What is a Vitamin D deficiency called?

Answer 9

Rickets

Question 10

What is a Vitamin B3 (Niacin) deficiency called?

Answer 10

Pellagra

skin inflammation, sores in the mouth, dementia

easily treatable