Here's Everything You Ever Needed To Know About Vitamins

Nov 07, 2018 by apost team

We all need vitamins to make our body function correctly and stay healthy. Some people choose to get their needed vitamins from the vegetables they eat, while others prefer an easier method of taking supplements. Unless you have done research or work in the medical field, you probably don't know what foods will provide you with the vitamins you need.

Here is some information that will help figure out how to get in all those vitamins your body is craving.

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Vitamin A

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Benefits:

Found in: 

  • Cottage cheese 
  • Liver 
  • Carrots 
  • Spinach 
  • Citrus fruit 
  • Parsley 
  • Hard cheese 
  • Fish 
  • Eggs 
  • Milk 

Destroyed with: 

  • Hot temperatures 
  • Preservation over long periods of time 

Recommended serving: 

  • 0.4-0.9 mg per day 

Vitamin B1

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Benefits:

  • Keeps your brain functioning efficiently 
  • Helps with getting good quality sleep 
  • Aids with digestion 
  • Keeps your heart and muscles healthy 

Found in: 

  • Legumes 
  • Yeast used for brewing 
  • Wheatgrass 
  • Port 
  • Nuts 
  • Buckwheat 
  • Oats 

Destroyed with: 

  • Adding salt while preparing a meal 
  • Preservation over long periods of time 
  • Having coffee with your meal 

Recommended serving: 

  • 1.3-2.6 mg per day 

Vitamin B2

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Benefits:

  • Regenerates cells 
  • Ideal for sharp vision 
  • Helps keep your muscles to stay healthy and strong 

Found in: 

  • Milk 
  • Meat 
  • Almonds 
  • Eggs 
  • Yeast 
  • Mushrooms 
  • Cottage Cheese 
  • Buckwheat 

Destroyed with: 

  • Exposure to light for prolonged periods of time 

Recommended serving: 

  • 1.3-3 mg per day 

Vitamin B5

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Benefits:

  • Keeps your memory functioning well 
  • Aids with recovery period after an illness 
  • Keeps your blood vessels healthy 
  • Helps keep your heart healthy and strong 

Found in: 

  • Cottage cheese 
  • Meats 
  • Broccoli 
  • Rice 
  • Buckwheat 
  • Chicken 
  • Egg yolk 
  • Dairy products 
  • Oatmeal 
  • Yeast 
  • Caviar 
  • Nuts 
  • Legumes 

Destroyed with: 

  • Freezing repeatedly 

Recommended serving: 

  • 5.0 mg per day 


 

Vitamin B6

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Benefits:

  • Rejuvenates your body 
  • Helps to keep your nervous system functioning properly 
  • Aids in keeping your blood vessels healthy 

Found in: 

  • Cereals 
  • Meat 
  • Salmon 
  • Sprouted wheat grains 
  • Wheat bran 
  • Walnuts 
  • Green salad 
  • Cabbage 
  • Bananas 

Destroyed with: 

  • Exposure to light over long periods of time 

Recommended serving: 

  • 1.3-2.0 mg per day

Vitamin B12

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Benefits:

  • Helps maintain a normal weight 
  • Aids with memory retention 
  • Keeps your immunity up 
  • Great for gastrointestinal tract 

Found in: 

  • Meats 
  • Soybeans 
  • Hops 
  • Spinach 
  • Egg yolk 
  • Cheese 
  • Milk 
  • Kelps 
  • Oysters 
  • Fish 

Destroyed with: 

  • Exposures to light over long periods of time 
  • High temperatures 

Recommended serving: 

  • 2.0-5.0 mg per day 

Vitamin C

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Benefits:

  • Keeps skin looking younger 
  • Helps your hair and nails to look healthy 
  • Improves your mood 
  • Good for your immunity 

Found in: 

  • Dill 
  • Asparagus 
  • Kiwifruit 
  • Citrus fruit 
  • Rose hips 
  • Sea buckthorn 
  • Peas 
  • Beans 
  • Radish 
  • Cauliflower 
  • Red fruit 

Destroyed with: 

  • Cooking or Baking 

Recommended serving: 

  • 70 mg per day 

Vitamin D

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Benefits: 

  • Aids with keeping bones to stay strong 
  • Good for blood coagulation 
  • Keeps immunity up 
  • Improves mood 
  • Eliminates toxins from body 
  • Helps to keep your blood vessels and heart healthy and strong 

Found in: 

  • Cheese 
  • Beef 
  • Vegetable oils 
  • Butter 
  • Cottage cheese 
  • Egg yolk 
  • Fish 
  • Seafood 
  • Potatoes 

Destroyed with: 

  • Cooking in an alkaline environment 

Recommended serving: 

  • 2.0-5.0 mg per day 


 

Vitamin E

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Benefits: 

  • Rejuvenates the body 
  • Aids to keep the body functioning normally in reproduction 
  • Improves mood 
  • Protects you from environmental harm 

Found in: 

  • Meats 
  • Liver 
  • Dairy products 
  • Sunflower oil 
  • Pumpkin Seed oil 
  • Olive oil 
  • Corn oil 
  • Butter 
  • Nuts 

Destroyed with: 

  • Preservation over long periods of time 

Recommended serving: 

  • 30-50 mg per day 
     

Vitamin K

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Benefits: 

  • Increases the speed of healing from wounds 
  • Aids with coagulation of blood 
  • Helps with balancing the production of prothrombin in the blood 

Found in: 

  • Spinach 
  • Kelps 
  • Green tea 
  • Strawberries 
  • Nettles 
  • Rose hips 
  • Cabbage 
  • Cauliflower 
  • Red cabbage 
  • Carrots 
  • Tomatoes 

Destroyed with: 

  • Exposure to light over extended periods of time 
  • Long-term preparation 

Recommended serving: 

  • 1.0-2.0 mg per day

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Our content is created to the best of our knowledge, yet it is of general nature and cannot in any way substitute an individual consultation by your doctor. Your health is important to us!