Involving the ingredients as found in the food on the platform of research surfaced when in 1906, a British bio-chemist proved that along with proteins, carbohydrates, fats, minerals and water food also keeps accessory factors or substance that is needed for transforming food to chemical form for the employment and use by the body. Scientists for the sake of convenience named those substances to vitamins and kept them separate by giving them a different letter of the alphabet as they kept on discovering new substance. Now vitamins can be divided into two categories one for water soluble kind like the B complex vitamin and vitamin C and the fat soluble like A.D.E and K. However, primary vitamins as used by our body are:
Vitamin A: It is a group of compounds that has a very important role in growth and sustenance in vision, bone growth, reproduction, cell division, and cell differentiation where a cell becomes part of the brain, muscle, lungs, blood and other specialized tissues. Vitamin A helps in regulating the immune system that helps to prevent and fight away infections by making white blood cells that destroy harmful bacteria and viruses. Vitamin A is found in animal fat, dairy products and green leafy vegetables.
Vitamin B: It is found in meat, cereal, grain and dairy products. The Vitamin B is the group of eight water-soluble vitamins which play a very important role in cell metabolism. Combining those eight it is been called as vitamin B complex.
Vitamin C: It is found in Fresh Fruit and vegetables and it helps to grow body and heal wounds and create on body tissues.
Vitamin D: This vitamin is produced by human skin and referred only when a person is exposed to sunlight. It is found in eggs and fish and is required by the body for absorbing calcium and phosphorus.
Vitamin E: It is found in green leafy vegetables and in most of the cases remain available as a dietary supplement. It is the collective name for a group of fat soluble compounds added with distinctive antioxidant activities. In nature it is found in eight chemical forms like alpha-, beta-, gamma-, and delta-tocopherol and alpha-, beta-, gamma-, and delta-tocotrienol as they have varying level and types of biological activities.
In order to make out the best use of vitamins that a person founds in vegetable as part of their diet it is imperative for them to wash them out and eating fresh vegetable within a week of after procuring them. . If you have the choice between canned and frozen vegetables than frozen vegetables always keep more vitamins yet there is no alternate or substitute for fresh vegetables.
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