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Things can get confusing when perusing the vitamin aisle at your health food shop, pharmacy, or favorite or grocery store. How do you differentiate all the types, what your body need according to your food intake and functions, and even know what foods have specific vitamin in them?
There’s always the ease of taking women’s multi-vitamin- but it’s still important to know what important you’re putting into your body and why. A well balanced diet is the most important way to get the vitamins you need- but knowing cabbage what they do for you can push you to eat healthier.
Figure out what vitamins you could be getting more of for a healthier and more beautiful body and mind.
• Vitamin B1: Important for nerve function, energy and metabolism. Found in foods like pork, whole-grain breads and cereals, legumes seeds, and nuts.
• Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin): Helps skin and vision health and care. Found in dairy products, leafy green vegetables, and whole grains.
• Vitamin B3: Helps the body metabolize, aids in the nervous and digestive systems and overall skin health Found in meat, poultry, fish, whole grains, mushrooms, asparagus, and peanut butter.
• Folic Acid: Helps create new cells and DNA, especially red blood cells. Found in legumes, seeds, orange juice, leafy green vegetables, and liver.
• Vitamin B12: Helps the body create new cells and important for nerve function. Found fish seafood, poultry, dairy products and meat. This is not found in plants.
• Vitamin C (Ascorbic acid): An antioxidant that breaks down proteins, important for the immune system, and helps iron absorption. Found in fruits and vegetables only particularly citrus fruits such as oranges and pomegranate, cabbage, tomatoes, papayas, mangoes, and kiwi.
• Vitamin A: Aids in vision, Healthy skin, mucous membranes, bone and tooth health and grown, and the immune system’s health. Found in fortified diary products and dark, leafy vegetables and dark oranges fruit like cantaloupe and apricot and carrot, sweet potatoes and pumpkin.
• Vitamin D: Needed to absorb calcium and is stored in the bones. Found in egg yolks, fatty fish such as salmon fortified dairy products. The skin also creates natural vitamin D when exposed to sunlight in small doses.
• Vitamin E: Antioxidant that protects from free radicals and protects the cellular wall. Found in polyunsaturated plants oils such as soybean, corn, and safflower. Also in leafy green vegetables, whole grain products, liver, egg yolk, nuts, and seeds.
• Vitamin K: Aids in proper blood clotting. Found in leafy green vegetables, milk, and naturally produced in the intestinal tract by the body’s own bacteria.
