Home Ec (vitamins) Flashcards
(20 cards)
Vitamin B
Function
Needed for a healthy nervous system growth and it is needed to release energy from food
Classify vitamins
Water solubles
Vitamins B & C
Fat solubles
Vitamins A D E & K
Vitamins B
Sources
Meat fish cheese eggs
Vitamin B
Deficiency disease
Beri-beri pellagra and a bigger chance of spina bifilar in new born children
Vitamins C
Function
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
Vitamins C
Sources
Fresh fruit and vegetables
Vitamins C
Deficiency disease
Scurvy anaemia delayed and healing wounds
What is scurvy
Scurvy was a disease commonly found among sailors who ate mainly meat and crackers the sailors rarely had fresh fruit and vegetables
Vitamin D
Function
Works with calcium to make strong bones and teeth
Vitamins D
Sources
Sunshine oily fish eggs cheese cod live oil
Vitamins D
Deficiency disease
Rickets osteoporosis tooth decay and osteomalacia
Vitamin A
Function
Growth healthy eyes healthy skin healthy lining tissue in the nose and throat etc.
Vitamin A
Sources
Fish liver oil, oily fish, eggs, milk, carrots
Vitamins A
Deficiency diseases
Slowed growth, lining of nose and throat becomes dry and irritated, night blindness
Vitamin K
Function
Helps the blood to clot
Vitamin K
Sources
Cod liver oil, cabbage, spinach, cauliflower
Vitamin K
Deficiency disease
Blood clots slowly or in severe
Vitamins E
Function
Acts as an ANTIOXIDANT which are thought to reduce the appearance of ageing and the incidence of cancer and coronary heart disease
Vitamins E
Sources
Eggs, nuts, cereal, sunflower seeds
Vitamins E
Deficiency disease
Very rare to have a disease from lack of it
