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Retinol in Animal Food: Milk,: Vitamin A

The document discusses four fat-soluble vitamins: Vitamin A, Vitamin D, Vitamin E, and Vitamin K. It provides the chemical name, sources, functions, and deficiency symptoms for each vitamin. The vitamins are essential for vision, bone and tooth formation, absorption of calcium and phosphorus, antioxidant effects, blood clotting, and production of bone proteins. Deficiencies can lead to night blindness, rickets, osteomalacia, premature aging, increased blood cell breakdown, and inability of blood to clot.

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Retinol in Animal Food: Milk,: Vitamin A

The document discusses four fat-soluble vitamins: Vitamin A, Vitamin D, Vitamin E, and Vitamin K. It provides the chemical name, sources, functions, and deficiency symptoms for each vitamin. The vitamins are essential for vision, bone and tooth formation, absorption of calcium and phosphorus, antioxidant effects, blood clotting, and production of bone proteins. Deficiencies can lead to night blindness, rickets, osteomalacia, premature aging, increased blood cell breakdown, and inability of blood to clot.

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Fat-soluble Vitamin

Name Chemical Source Function Deficiency


name
Vitamin A Retinol Retinol in animal food: Milk, Require to make a substance called Night blindness
Cheese, Egg (yolk), Butter, visual purple
Oily fish e.g. herring, Keratomalacia (total
pilchard, sardine, liver, Require for the maintenance and night blindness)
kidney, cod- and halibut- health of the skin
liver oil. Growth of children are
Beta(β)-carotene in plant Require for normal growth of retarded
food: Carrots, Spinach, children, particularly the bones
Watercress, Apricots, and teeth The skin and mucous
Parsley, Cabbage, Tomatoes, membrane become dry
Prunes, Papaya, Mango, Require to keep the mucous and infected
Sweet potatoes, Bok Choy, membrane in the throat and the
Calloloo and Pumpkin. digestive, bronchial, and excretory
system moist and free from
infection
Vitamin D Cholecalciferol Liver, Fish-liver oils, oil fish, Required for the proper formation Rickets
Liver oil, Egg yolk, of bones and teeth
Margarine, Milk and Dairy Helps to promote absorption of Osteomalacia (An adult
products calcium and phosphorus form of rickets)
Sunlight
Growth of children are
retarded

Vitamin E Tocopherol Lettuce , Grasses, Peanuts, Prevents oxidation of Premature babies,


SEEDS, Wheat germ oil, polyunsaturated fatty acid and increase breakdown of
Vegetable oil, Sunflower seed other lipids red blood cells, muscle
oil, Milk, Egg and Milk Protect against heart diseases by tissue damage and
products protect LDLS against oxidation swelling of
Protect polyunsaturated fatty acid adipose(fatty) tissue
and is a very effective antioxidant

Vitamin K Soya bean, beef liver, green Assists in the production of Blood are unable to
tea, cereals, broccoli and coagulation factors of the blood, to clot
green leafy vegetables, enable it to clot properly after an
asparagus, cauliflower injury
Assists with the synthesis of bone
proteins
Water-soluble vitamin

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