Nutrition Test #3

• -Thiamin
• -Riboflavin
• -Niacin
• -Biotin
• -Pantothenic Acid
• -Vitamin B12
• -Folate
• -Vitamin B6
• -Vitamin C

• -Vitamin A
• -Vitamin D
• -Vitamin E
• -Vitamin K

-Functions: Mineralization of bones

-Food Source: Margarine, butter, fortified milk, liver, beef, salmon, fatty fish & etc. 

-Deficiency Effect: Rickets & Bowlegs (Children), Osteoporosis (Adults)

-Functions: Synthesis of blood clotting proteins

-Food Source: Green leafy vegetables, milk, liver,& etc...

-Deficiency Effect: Poor skeletal mineralization, hemorrhage.

-Functions: Vision 

-Food Source: Fortified milk, cream, cheese, milk, butter, eggs, and liver, &etc.

-Deficiency Effect: Hypovitaminosis A, Impaired bone growth and easily decayed teeth, xerosis, blindness.

-Functions: Antioxidants, stabilizing of cell membrane.

-Food Source: Polyunsaturated oils (salad dressings, margarine, shortnenings), green leafy vegetables, whole grain, wheat germ, etc.

-Deficiency Effect: Anemia, Erythocyte hemolysis, nerve damage

Affects absorption, transport, and excretion

• -Move directly into the blood.
• -Most travel freely

• -Enter Lymph and then blood
• -Require transport proteins

-Function: Part of coenzyme used in energy metabolism.

-Food source: Soy milk, pork chop, squash, tomato juice.

-Deficiency Effects: BeriBeri , enlarged heart , heart failure, anorexia, & etc.

-Functions: Part of coenzyme used in energy metabolism 

-Food Source: Milk products, yogurt, egg, liver, whole grain, mushrooms & etc.

- Deficiency Effects: Ariboflavinosis (cracks and redness at corners of mouth), sore throat, &etc.

-Functions: Part of coenzymes used in energy metabolism.

-Food Source: Milk, eggs, meat, poultry, fish, whole-grain, & etc.

-Deficiency Effects: Pellagra: diarrhea, abdominal pain, vomiting, & Etc.

-Functions: Part of coenzymes used in amino acids and fatty acids, helps make red blood cells.  

-Fod Source: Meats, fish, poultry, potatoes, watermelon, liver, noncitrus fruits,&etc.

-Deficiency Effects: Scaly dermatitis, anemia, depression.. 

- Functions: Part of coenzymes used in DNA Synthesis and therefore important in new cell formation.

-Food Source: Leafy green vegetables, legumes, seeds, liver, enriched grains. 

-Deficiency Effects: Anemia, smooth red tongu, mental confusion, weakness, fatigue, & etc. 

Folate & B-12

-Functions: Part of coenzymes for new cell synthesis including blood synthesis.

-Food Sources: Animal products of meat, fish, poulty, cheese, milk, & eggs. 

-Deficiency Effects: Pernicious Anemia 

-Functions: Part of Coenzyme used in energy metabolism

-Food Source: Chicken, beef, potatoes, oats, tomatoes, liver, egg, & etc. 

-Deficiency Effects: Vomiting, nausea, stomach cramps; insomnia, fatique, hypoglycemia, &etc.

-Functions: Part of coenzyme used in energy metabolism, fat synthesis, amino acids metabolsim, and glycogen synthesis.

-Food Source: Liver, egg yolks, soy beans, fish , whole grains

-Deficiency Effects: Depression, lethargy, hallucinations, numb, & etc.