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\Q\.What are vitamins? - ANSWERS✔-Non-caloric organic compounds needed in small
quantities to assist in such functions as growth, maintenance, and repair.
\Q\.What are two types of vitamins? - ANSWERS✔-fat soluble (A, D, E, K)
water soluble (Vitamin c, thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, pantothenic acid, biotin, vitamin B6, folate
and vitamin B12)
\Q\.What are the differences between the two types of vitamins? - ANSWERS✔-Water soluble is
not stored in the body, and fat soluble is stored in the body.
\Q\.Vitamin A Food sources - ANSWERS✔-Chicken livers, sweet potato w/skin, carrots, spinach,
pumpkin.
\Q\.Vitamin A Results of deficiency - ANSWERS✔-Night blindness, exophthalmia, and decreased
immunity.
\Q\.Vitamin D food sources - ANSWERS✔-Tuna fish, whole or fortified milk, fortified soy milk,
fortified cereal
\Q\.Vitamin D Results of deficiency - ANSWERS✔-Rickets, osteoma Lacia, osteoporosis
,\Q\.Vitamin E Food sources - ANSWERS✔-Fortified cereal, sunflower seeds, tomatoes sauce,
safflower oil
\Q\.Vitamin E results of deficiency - ANSWERS✔-anemia, nervous system disorders
\Q\.Vitamin K Food sources - ANSWERS✔-Green leafy veggies, tuna fish, tomato sauce
\Q\.Vitamin K results of deficiency - ANSWERS✔-Hemorrhagic disease (newborn), defective
blood clotting
\Q\.Vitamin C food Sources - ANSWERS✔-Citrus fruits, berries, broccoli, cabbage, chili peppers,
tomatoes
\Q\.Vitamin C results of deficiency - ANSWERS✔-Easy bruising, poor wound healing, gingivitis,
anemia
\Q\.Thiamin Food sources - ANSWERS✔-Pork beef, whole grains, legumes
\Q\.Thiamin results of deficiency - ANSWERS✔-Beri Beri, neuropathy, Wernicke Korsakoff
syndrome (alcoholism)
\Q\.Roboflavin food sources - ANSWERS✔-milk products, organ meats, enriched grains, and
cereal.
\Q\.Roboflavin results of deficiency - ANSWERS✔-cheilosis, glossitis, seborrheic dermatitis
\Q\.Niacin Food sources - ANSWERS✔-meat and dairy, peanuts, enriched grains and cereals.
, \Q\.Niacin deficiency - ANSWERS✔-pellagra, weakness, scaly dermatitis, neuritis
\Q\.Pantothenic Acid food sources - ANSWERS✔-Eggs, milk, liver
\Q\.Pantothenic Acid Deficiency - ANSWERS✔-problems with lipogenesis, amino acid activation,
formation of cholesterol, steroid hormones and heme
\Q\.Biotin food sources - ANSWERS✔-Egg yolk, liver, synthesized by intestinal bacteria.
\Q\.Biotin deficiency - ANSWERS✔-problems with skin and hair
\Q\.Vitamin B6 food sources - ANSWERS✔-meat, organ meat, legumes, bananas, potatoes
\Q\.Vitamin B6 deficiency - ANSWERS✔-hypochromic anemia, CNS abnormalities
\Q\.Folate food sources - ANSWERS✔-Green leafy vegetables, oranges, tomatoes, liver, organ
meats
\Q\.Folate deficiency - ANSWERS✔-Megaloblastic anemia, neural tube defects in pregnancy
\Q\.Vitmain B12 food sources - ANSWERS✔-milk, egg, cheese, meat, fortified cereals, juices, soy
milk
\Q\.Vitamin B12 Deficiency - ANSWERS✔-Pernicious anemia, megaloblastic anemia, peripheral
neuropathy