A simple basic nutrition principle for meal preparation to promote efficient benefit from a wide range of nutrients in each meal, hence promoting good health, and in the long run, wealth. Also there are some basic explanation about certain functions and misconceptions.

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Tuesday, 1 September 2020

Maintaining Health With Micronutrients

Sweet potato is the best source of vitamin A, and so contributes a great deal to good health.
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Even as much as eating a wide variety of foods is essential for good health, so also is consuming adequate volume of each essential nutrient. In this section we will look at the known micronutrients, their function, recommended minimum volume intake, and foods that supplies the highest amount.

Vitamin A

Vitamin A is a group of fat-soluble vitamins including retinol, retinal, retinyl palmitate, and the provitamin A carotenoids. Vitamin A is found in two principal forms in foods – retinol sourced from animals and carotene sourced from plants. Beta-carotene - the most important ... (Read more)


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