Nutrition Ch. 8
Vitamins ATI Pg. 5 / Actual Questions &
Verified Answers.
Question Answer
Vitamins occur in foods in? much smaller qualities
Vitamins serve as facilitators? of bodies processess
What do Vit. A deficiency
blindness
cause?
What can a lack of ciacin
dementia
cause?
What can lack of Vit. D cause? retard bone growth
People spend billions on
many different ailments
dietary supplements to cure?
potent, essential, nonkcaloric, organic
Vitamins are? nutrients needed from foods in trace
amounts to perform specific functions
, energy when broken down, but assist
Vitamins do not yeild?
enzymes that release energy
The amounts of vitamins
people ingest are measured micrograms, and milligrams
in?
Vitmans are essential to? life, organic and in food
What are fat soluble vitamins? Vit. A D E K
What are water soluble Vit. B, thiamin, riboflavin, niacin,
vitamins? pantothenic acid....
What does the amount of the quantity provided by a food and the
vitamins from food depend amount absorbed and used by the body
on? (bioavailability)
efficiency of digestion, person's previous
What does a vitamins nutrient intake, other foods eaten at the
bioabailability depend on? same time, method of preparation, source of
the nutrient
Inactive forms of vitamins are? precursors or provitamins
Once in the body what is a
to the active form of the vitamin
precursor converted to?
Being organic vitamins can be? destroyed and left unable to function
, Oxygen destroys Vit? C
Sun light destroys? riboflavin
Heat destroys? thiamin
What are the 2 classes of
fat soluble and water soluble
vitamins?
Fat soluble vitamins are
lipids
absorbed like?
Where are fat soluble vitamins
liver and fatty tissue
stored?
Water soluble vitamins must regularly because the body does not store
be consumed more? them to any great extent
What is the first fat soluble
Vit. A
vitamin to be recognized?
What is Vit. A plant derived
beta carotene
precursor?
gene expression, vision, cell differentiation,
Vit. A plays roles in?
immunity, and reproduction and growth
Vitamins ATI Pg. 5 / Actual Questions &
Verified Answers.
Question Answer
Vitamins occur in foods in? much smaller qualities
Vitamins serve as facilitators? of bodies processess
What do Vit. A deficiency
blindness
cause?
What can a lack of ciacin
dementia
cause?
What can lack of Vit. D cause? retard bone growth
People spend billions on
many different ailments
dietary supplements to cure?
potent, essential, nonkcaloric, organic
Vitamins are? nutrients needed from foods in trace
amounts to perform specific functions
, energy when broken down, but assist
Vitamins do not yeild?
enzymes that release energy
The amounts of vitamins
people ingest are measured micrograms, and milligrams
in?
Vitmans are essential to? life, organic and in food
What are fat soluble vitamins? Vit. A D E K
What are water soluble Vit. B, thiamin, riboflavin, niacin,
vitamins? pantothenic acid....
What does the amount of the quantity provided by a food and the
vitamins from food depend amount absorbed and used by the body
on? (bioavailability)
efficiency of digestion, person's previous
What does a vitamins nutrient intake, other foods eaten at the
bioabailability depend on? same time, method of preparation, source of
the nutrient
Inactive forms of vitamins are? precursors or provitamins
Once in the body what is a
to the active form of the vitamin
precursor converted to?
Being organic vitamins can be? destroyed and left unable to function
, Oxygen destroys Vit? C
Sun light destroys? riboflavin
Heat destroys? thiamin
What are the 2 classes of
fat soluble and water soluble
vitamins?
Fat soluble vitamins are
lipids
absorbed like?
Where are fat soluble vitamins
liver and fatty tissue
stored?
Water soluble vitamins must regularly because the body does not store
be consumed more? them to any great extent
What is the first fat soluble
Vit. A
vitamin to be recognized?
What is Vit. A plant derived
beta carotene
precursor?
gene expression, vision, cell differentiation,
Vit. A plays roles in?
immunity, and reproduction and growth
