VITAMINS TYPES, SOURCES AND EFFECT OF DEFICIENCY.

VITAMINS:-

Vitamins discovered by scientist FUCK.

Vitamins do not provide us energy, but help in different physiological process.

# vitamins are mainly two types :-

1) FAT SOLUBLE:-  Vitamin A, D, E and K.

2) WATER SOLUBLE:- Vitamin B- complex and vitamin C.

* B1 or THIAMINE:-

SOURCES: rice bran, wheat, egg, yeast, meat etc.

EFFECT OF DEFICIENCY: Beri Beri.

* B2 or RIBOFLAVIN:-

SOURCES: cheese, eggs, tomatoes, green vegetables etc.

EFFECT OF DEFICIENCY: cheilosis.

*B3 or PP3 or NIACIN:-

SOURCES: Fresh meat, milk, pulses, yeast, etc.

EFFECT OF DEFICIENCY: Pellagra.

B5 or PANTOTHENIC ACID:-

SOURCES: yeast, liver, kidneys, egg, meat, milk, sugarcane, groundnut, etc.

EFFECT OF DEFICIENCY: Dermatitis.

B6 or PYRIDOXINE:-

SOURCES: Milk, cereals, fish, meat liver, yeast, Synthesized by intestinal bacteria.

EFFECT OF DEFICIENCY: Anaemia, Dermatitis.

B12 or CYANOCOBALAMINE:-

SOURCES: meat, fish, liver, egg, milk, etc 

EFFECT OF DEFICIENCY: Pernicious anaemia, retarded growth.

VITAMIN -C or ASCORBIC ACID:-

SOURCES: Lemon, orange, tomatoes, green vegetables, potatoes, carrots, pepper, etc.

EFFECT OF DEFICIENCY:  Scurvy.

VITAMIN-A or RETINOL:-

SOURCES: Synthesized in cells of liver, found in milk, butter, kidneys, egg yolk, liver, fish oil, etc.

EFFECT OF DEFICIENCY:  Xerophthalmia.

VITAMIN-D or CALCIFEROL:-

SOURCES: Synthesized in skin cells in Sunlight, also found in butter, liver, kidneys, egg yolk, fish oil, etc.

EFFECT OF DEFICIENCY: Rickets, Osteomalacia.etc.

VITAMIN-E or TOCOPHEROL:- 

SOURCES: Green vegetables, oils, egg yolk, wheat, animal tissues.

EFFECT OF DEFICIENCY: Reversible sterility.

VITAMIN-K or PHYLLOQUINONE:-

SOURCES: Carrots, lettuce, cabbage, tomatoes, cheese, egg yolk, Synthesized by colon bacteria.

EFFECT OF DEFICIENCY: Haemorrhages.

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