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Vitamin B-12, also knows as cobalamin, is unique among the vitamins on 2 accounts. First, food of animal origin, such as meat, poultry, fish, and dairy products, are the only reliable sources of vitamin B-12. Second, it is the only vitamin that contains a mineral (cobalt) as part of its structure.
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About 10 % of the vitamin K absorbed each day comes from bacterial synthesis in the colon. The remainder comes from dietary sources. Although the vitamin K contents of individual foods varies, green leafy vegetables (e.g., kale, turnip greens, parsley, salad greens, cabbage, and spinach),…
For many years, choline often was included in supplements as a “supposed” B-vitamin, but most nutrition experts claimed that choline was not a vitamin at all because liver synthesis could meet the requirements for choline. However, recent research demonstrates that humans consuming choline-deficient diets develop liver and kidney problems. …
Good food sources of Vitamin E include plant oils (e.g., cottonseed, canola, safflower, and sunflower oils), wheat germ, asparagus, almonds, peanuts, and sunflower seeds. Animal fats and dairy products contain little vitamin E….
Most scientists classify vitamin D as a vitamin. However, in the presence of sunlight, skin cells can synthesize a sufficient supply of vitamin D from a derivate of cholesterol. Because a dietary source is not required if synthesis is adequate to meet the needs, the vitamin is more correctly classified as a “conditional” vitamin, or prohormone (a precursor or an active hormone). In the absence of UV light exposure, an adequate dietary intake of vitamin D is essential to prevent the deficiency diseases rickets and osteomalacia and to provide for cellular needs….
