CORRECT Answers
Question: Vitamin A
Correct Answer: Found in chicken livers, sweet potato with skin, carrots, spinach, and pumpkin.
Deficiency causes night blindness, exophthalmia, and decreased immunity
Question: Vitamin D
Correct Answer: Found in tuna fish, whole or fortified milk, fortified soy milk, and fortified cereal.
Deficiency causes rickets, osteomalacia, and osteoporosis
Question: Vitamin K
Correct Answer: Found in green leafy vegetables, tuna fish, and tomato sauce. Deficiency causes
hemorrhagic disease (newborn) and defective blood clotting
Question: Thiamin (B1)
Correct Answer: Found in pork, beef, whole grains, and legumes Deficiency causes beriberi, neuropathy,
Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome (alcoholism)
Question: Riboflavin (B2)
Correct Answer: Found in milk products, organ meats, enriched grains and cereals Deficiency causes
cheilosis, glossitis, seborrheic dermatitis
Question: Niacin (B3)
Correct Answer: Found in meat and dairy, peanuts, enriched grains and cereals Deficiency causes
pellagra, weakness, scaly dermatitis and neuritis
Question: Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine)
Correct Answer: Found in meat, organ meats, legumes, bananas, and potatoes Deficiency causes
hypochromic anemia and CNS abnormalities
Question: Vitamin B12 (cobalamin)
Correct Answer: Found in meat, milk, cheese, egg, fortified cereals and juices Deficiency causes
pernicious anemia, and neural tube defects in pregnancy
Question: Phosphrous
Correct Answer: Formation of bones and teeth, participates in absorption of glucose. Found in milk,
cheese, meats, egg yolk, whole grains, legumes and nuts. Requires 700 mg/day Deficiency causes
hypophosphatemia, weakness, loss of appetite, fatigue and pain
Question: Risks for dehydration & diseases
Correct Answer: Kidney infections, kidney stones, gallstones, and constipation, can advance to death, may
adversely influence cognitive function and mood
Question: Risks for fluid volume overload (Hypervolemia)
Correct Answer: Kidney disease, congestive heart failure and liver disease. Symptoms: Edema (puffiness),
puffy eye lids, swollen hands, bounding pulse, rapid weight gain, cramping, swelling in abdomen,
headache, shortness of breath, high blood pressure and fatigue.