Vitamin – Essential Nutrients for Health
Vitamins are the stars of the nutrition scene. Nutrition,
Food science is the study of nutrients and
substances in food. Scientists examine how it balances
of food compounds are related to health and disease, and explore
how they interact during the ingestion process,
absorption, utilization and excretion.
There are six essential nutrients for health and the body.
maintenance: vitamins, minerals, water, fats, proteins and
Carbohydrates are the building blocks of life, and we
obtain them through our diet. Our bodies don’t make them.
At this time, it is known that there are fourteen vitamins
required by humans. Vitamins, first discovered in the
late 19th century, are organic compounds found in food. Since
are organic – contain carbon – can be
destroyed by heat, unlike its essential companion
group of nutrients, the incombustible minerals.
In the early 20th century, when scientists continued to investigate
discover new vitamins, they named compounds newly discovered by
alphabet: A, B, C, D, E~. K. Note: Compounds that had
named F, G, H, I, J were later disqualified as
vitamins, not meeting the definition: organic compounds
Necessary in small amounts for growth and maintenance of life.
Compounds that have been given letters with numbers, B-1, B-
2~ was originally thought to be a composite, but later
determined to be several different compounds with specific
functions for each.
Vitamins fall into one of two classes: fat-soluble or water-soluble.
soluble. Vitamin C and B vitamins (such as niacin and
riboflavin) are soluble in water. Vitamins A, D, E and K are
fat soluble What type of solubility does each vitamin have?
It will indicate which foods contain them. basically no fat
the food does not have fat-soluble vitamins. However, very colored
Vegetables like carrots contain beta-carotene, a proto-
vitamin that can be converted into active vitamin A.
Water soluble vitamins are easily eliminated by the body and
lost from food during preparation. since they are not
stored by the body, we need to ingest them every day.
However, it is better to avoid taking them in excess.
On the other hand, fat-soluble vitamins are easily stored
by the body. Therefore, caution is necessary to avoid excessive
amounts; it is possible to accumulate toxic levels of the
fat soluble vitamins.
People commonly wonder if they need to take vitamin
supplements, and which vitamins should be taken forever
Health. The situation today is that our food is arriving
us from conditions that were never the case before
for humans. Modern food is highly processed and is
Frequently cultivated in impoverished soils. Our food is collected
immature and therefore incomplete from the point of view of
nutrition. They are then shipped and handled more than the
ideal. Therefore, it seems unlikely that the average
the person’s diet provides sufficient amounts of the
nutrients – vitamins and minerals in particular. However,
we are consuming excessive amounts of harmful compounds
such as preservatives and refined sugars.
As suggested. Do your own research project. follow the trail
of what you eat for a week or two. eat normally and alone
write down what you ate and how much. Then also
buy or check out from your library a book on vitamins that
will tell you roughly what you got from each food item
fountain. Add it up and compare it to the recommended daily
assignments. See how you’re doing, and if you think it’s a
good idea to make some improvements, consult with a
professional nutritionist, naturopathic doctor, or other
health professional to devise a good diet plan
and nutritional supplements. you will see how deep
difference good nutrition can make in your health.