Vitamins

Vitamins

What are Vitamins?

Vitamins are essential substances that our body needs to grow normally. Our body needs vitamins to stay healthy and good diet gives us all the vitamins. Different kinds of vitamins play a unique role in maintaining good health.

Vitamins can be classified into two categories

1.Water soluble vitamins
2.Fat soluble vitamins

* Water soluble vitamins
Water-soluble vitamins are not stored in the body. We need to get them from food every day.
Water soluble vitamins dissolves in water and eliminated in urine. There are nine water soluble Vitamins. Eight B-complex vitamins and vitamin C.

      * Vitamin B1

      * Vitamin B2

      * Vitamin B3

      * Vitamin B5

      * Vitamin B6

      * Vitamin B7

      * Vitamin B9

      * Vitamin B12

      * Vitamin C

* Fat soluble vitamins

Fat soluble vitamins are not soluble in fat and are stored in body fatty tissues. A,D,E and k are
fat soluble vitamins. If a person takes too much of a fat soluble vitamin it leads to toxicity

      * Vitamin A

      * Vitamin D

      * Vitamin E

      * Vitamin K