Which Are Fat Soluble Vitamins?

Vitamins soluble in fat are

1. Vitamin A
2. Vitamin D
3. Vitamin E
4. Vitamin K

1. Vitamin A

Vitamin A (anti-infective vitamin) is soluble in fat.

Sources:

Vitamin A is found in

Fish Liver	Oil	Pudina
Dahlia	Pan	Cholai
Milk	Butter	Egg
Carrot	Sweet Potato	Ripe Tomato
Spinach	Gram	Ripe Mango
Ripe Papaya	Cabbage

Uses It is very essential for body growth. Helps in digestion and increases appetite. Keeps up general bodily health. It keeps the eyes healthy. It is very essential for children and pregnant women. It prevents infectious diseases. It supplies food to the eyes, intestines, lungs, skin, and soft fibres.

Deficiency It causes eye ailments. It causes a deficiency of blood in the body. It causes deafness. It causes intestinal ailments. It causes swelling in the body. It causes cough and cold. It stops watering in the nose, ears, mouth, and kidney.

2. Vitamin D

Sources:

It is got from

Direct sunlight	Milk
Butter	Egg
Yellow ghee	Fish
Oil and cream

Uses It strengthens bones. It is helpful in constructing bones. It is helpful for strong teeth. It can be accumulated in body fibres. It is essential for pregnant and feeding mothers.

Deficiency It causes bone diseases in children. It can cause pain in the waist and thighs. It can cause arthritis and rickets. It can curve the spine and cause a hump. Teeth do not erupt at the proper time in children. It can cause bones to weaken and curve.

Also Read: Which Are Water Soluble Vitamins?

Vitamin E

(Anti sterility vitamin) Vitamin E is very important for reproduction.

Sources:

• It is available in animals as well as in vegetables.

It is found in

Wheat	Carrot
Spinach	Peanut
Milk	Butter
Cabbage	Potato
Seed	Egg
Meat	Green Vegetable

Uses It is helpful in body growth. It increases weight. It prevents loose motions. It prevents miscarriage.

Deficiency The male becomes unable to copulate. The females become unable to reproduce. The females suffer miscarriage The child in the womb can suffer death.

Vitamin K

(Meno-dion or coagulation vitamin) Vitamin K is discovered in 1964.

Sources:

This vitamin is available from

Spinach	Cabbage
Cauliflower	Soybeans
Oil	Tomato
Carrot	Egg Yellow and Orange Peel

Uses It avoids the clotting from blood. It is essential for pregnant women. It is needed for normal coagulation of blood. It is essential for mothers.

Deficiency The power to coagulate the blood decrease. Its deficiency causes the cessation of production of prothrombin. Bleeding is severe in case of an injury.

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