Vitamins

Question 1

What are the lipid soluble vitamins?

Answer 1

ADEK

Question 2

A
Name?
What foods?
def causes?

Answer 2

Retinoic acid/retinol

• Carrots, dark green and leafy veggies, sweet potatoes, squash, broccoli
• Xerophothalmia: night blindness
• dry, scaly skin

Question 3

D
Name?
What foods?
def causes?

Answer 3

Calcitrol

• Fortified milk, sunlight exposure, fish, eggs
• Rickets (in children)

Question 4

E
Name?
What foods?
def causes?

Answer 4

Tocopherols

• vegetable oils, seeds, nuts, leafy greens
• Muscular dystrophy and neuro abnormalities

Question 5

K
Name?
What foods?
def causes?

Answer 5

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• Leafy greens, cabbage, synthesized in intestine by bacteria
• blood coagulation issues,