Home Ec (vitamins)

Question 0

Vitamin B

Function

Answer 0

Needed for a healthy nervous system growth and it is needed to release energy from food

Question 1

Classify vitamins

Answer 1

Water solubles
Vitamins B & C
Fat solubles
Vitamins A D E & K

Question 2

Vitamins B

Sources

Answer 2

Meat fish cheese eggs

Question 3

Vitamin B

Deficiency disease

Answer 3

Beri-beri pellagra and a bigger chance of spina bifilar in new born children

Question 4

Vitamins C

Function

Answer 4

Needed for good general health for healthy skin and gums
Needed to help absorb iron
It helps make connective tissue which can help the healing of wounds

Question 5

Vitamins C

Sources

Answer 5

Fresh fruit and vegetables

Question 6

Vitamins C

Deficiency disease

Answer 6

Scurvy anaemia delayed and healing wounds

Question 7

What is scurvy

Answer 7

Scurvy was a disease commonly found among sailors who ate mainly meat and crackers the sailors rarely had fresh fruit and vegetables

Question 8

Vitamin D

Function

Answer 8

Works with calcium to make strong bones and teeth

Question 9

Vitamins D

Sources

Answer 9

Sunshine oily fish eggs cheese cod live oil

Question 10

Vitamins D

Deficiency disease

Answer 10

Rickets osteoporosis tooth decay and osteomalacia

Question 11

Vitamin A

Function

Answer 11

Growth healthy eyes healthy skin healthy lining tissue in the nose and throat etc.

Question 12

Vitamin A

Sources

Answer 12

Fish liver oil, oily fish, eggs, milk, carrots

Question 13

Vitamins A

Deficiency diseases

Answer 13

Slowed growth, lining of nose and throat becomes dry and irritated, night blindness

Question 14

Vitamin K

Function

Answer 14

Helps the blood to clot

Question 15

Vitamin K

Sources

Answer 15

Cod liver oil, cabbage, spinach, cauliflower

Question 16

Vitamin K

Deficiency disease

Answer 16

Blood clots slowly or in severe

Question 17

Vitamins E

Function

Answer 17

Acts as an ANTIOXIDANT which are thought to reduce the appearance of ageing and the incidence of cancer and coronary heart disease

Question 18

Vitamins E

Sources

Answer 18

Eggs, nuts, cereal, sunflower seeds

Question 19

Vitamins E

Deficiency disease

Answer 19

Very rare to have a disease from lack of it