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What Are The Best Sources Of Vitamin-A 

What Are The Best Sources Of Vitamin-A

Micro-Nutrients are Vitamins and minerals that are required for our body in minute amounts to fight diseases, to support metabolic activities and protect against infections. Vitamin A nutrients are more essential for maintenance of health and longevity.

VITAMIN A: Vitamin A is a fat-soluble vitamin. It plays an important role in normal vision, immune functions and mucus membrane. In India, it gives assistance to hydrate the skin efficiently, giving it a healthy glow. More than 3% of school age kids suffer from Vitamin A insufficiency indications like bitot spots (a gray patch on the white area of the eye). One of the earliest manifestations of Vitamin A deficiency is night blindness.


Importance of Vitamin A

• Vitamin A is essential for normal vision. Its deficiency results in night blindness and other complications.
• The Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA) for Vitamin A is 900 mcg and 700 mcg per day for men and women, respectively
• Vitamin A is added to several cosmetic products, such as moisturizers, sunscreen, vitamin-infused oils, and anti-aging creams.
Vitamin-rich foods
• Many green leafy vegetables, yellow and orange coloured fruits and vegetables are rich sources of beta-carotene.
• Vitamin A is necessary for hale and hearty hair. It repairs and maintains to keep the scalp moist. Various hair loss treatments contain Vitamin A as it is consideration to arouse hair growth.

Some indications of chronic vitamin A toxicity include:

• Vision changes Blurry vision
• Bones Swelling.
• Pain in the Bones.
• Dizziness.
• Poor appetite.
• Sickness and Nausea.
• Compassion to sunlight.
• Rough skin.

Lack of Vitamin A might worsen low iron condition, which can lead to anemia. Other indications of Vitamin A shortage include bumpy skin, dry skin, hair loss, and augmented harshness and mortality risk of diarrhea and measles.

Some of the foodstuffs that exists total beta-carotene contents given below:

Name of the food substance	Beta carotene μ/100 edible portion
Coriander leaves	4800
Curry leaves	7110
Drumstick leaves	19690
Fenugreek leaves	9100
Carrot	6460
Mango Ripe	1990
Papaya Ripe	880
Pumpkin	1160

A quantity of the maximum Vitamin A foods contains in berries, apricots, sweet potatoes, carrots, kale, spinach, eggs, butter, raw milk, papaya, cantaloupe, mangoes, and cheeses, cod liver oil and organ meats such as liver.

Advantages of above mentioned are foods rich in Vitamin A include sustaining in healthy vision, supporting neurological condition, encouraging reproductive health protecting skin, assisting with fetal growth and development.