Vitamin sources and Deficiency

Vitamin A

• Deficiency: Night blindness, poor vision
• Source:  sweet potato, milk, fish, carrots, liver, papaya

Vitamin B1 

• Deficiency: Beriberi, weak muscle, tired feeling 
• Source:  Beans, whole grain 

Vitamin B6

• Deficiency: Anemia 
• Source: bananas, meat

Vitamin C 

•   Deficiency: Scurvy, swelling of Gums, wound take longer time to heal 
• Sources: Citrus fruits, Tomatoes, berries, sprouts,

Vitamin D

•   Deficiency: Rickets, soft bones
• Sources:  Sunray, Milk, fatty fish

Vitamin E

•   Deficiency: less fertility
• Sources: leafy green vegetable, almond, soybeans Nuts, seeds, vegetable oils

Vitamin K

• Deficiency: Non-clotting of blood 
• Sources: Cabbage, eggs, Milk, graphs

Calcium:

• Deficiency: bone and tooth decay

Iodine: 

• Deficiency: Goiter, glands in the neck, mental disability in children 
• Sources: Seaweed and fish

Iron: 

• Deficiency: Anaemia, weakness 
• Source: Lentils, Red meat, fish, leaf vegetable

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