Food Sources and Vitamins

Food sources and vitamins and nutrients have their own essential function that contributes to a person’s general overall health and well-being.
Questions that arise about the importance of vitamins and nutrients and other factor that support life are:

1. Is there one vitamin or nutrient that is more important than another?
2. What is more important, sun, food, water or oxygen?

They are all equally important for life. So too are all of the vitamins and nutrients. It is impossible to actually state which vitamin is more important than the other. Vitamins need each other to work properly within our bodies.
Do you know the food sources for each of the 23 essential vitamins? There are a number of foods which provide all of these necessary life sustaining vitamins.
The vitamin type varies in each food, making it important to have a balanced diet to ensure that the required amounts of each are obtained.

Food Sources and Vitamins

The following is a guide to the food sources and their vitamins.
Vitamin A sources are milk, eggs, butter, yellow fruits & vegetables, dark green fruits & vegetables, liver.
Vitamin B-1 sources are brewer’s yeast, whole grains, blackstrap molasses, brown rice, organ meats, and egg yolks.
Vitamin B-2 sources are brewer’s yeast, whole grains, legumes, nuts, organ meats, and blackstrap molasses.
Vitamin B-3 sources are lean meats, poultry and fish, brewer’s yeast, peanuts, milk, rice bran, and potatoes.
Vitamin B-4 sources are egg yolks, organ meats, brewer’s yeast, wheat germ, soybeans, fish, and legumes.
Vitamin B-5 sources are organ meats, egg yolks, legumes, whole grains, wheat germ, salmon, and brewer’s yeast.
Vitamin B-6 sources are meats, whole grains, organ meats brewer’s yeast, blackstrap molasses, and wheat germ.
Vitamin B-7 sources are egg yolks, liver, unpolished rice, brewer’s yeast, sardines, legumes, and whole grains.
Vitamin B-8 sources are who1e grains, citrus fruits, molasses, meat, milk, nuts, vegetables, and brewer’s yeast.
Vitamin B-9 sources are dark-green leafy vegetables, organ meats, root vegetables, oysters, salmon, and milk.
Vitamin B-12 sources are organ meats, fish, pork, eggs, cheese, milk, lamb, bananas, kelp, and peanuts.
Vitamin B-13 sources are root vegetables, liquid whey.
Vitamin B-15 sources are brewer’s yeast, rare steaks, and brown rice, sunflower, pumpkin and sesame seeds.
Vitamin B-17 sources are whole kernels of apricots, apples, cherries, peaches, and plums.
Vitamin C sources are citrus, cabbage family, chili peppers, berries, melons, asparagus, and rose hips.
Vitamin D sources are salmon, sardines, herring, milk, egg yolk, organ meats, sprouted seeds, and sunflower seeds.
Vitamin E sources are cold-pressed oils, eggs, wheat germ, organ meats, molasses, sweet potatoes, and nuts.
Vitamin K sources are green leafy vegetables, egg yolks, safflower oil, blackstrap molasses, and cauliflower.

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