Nutrient Deficiency

Sources Functions
s Diseases
Carrots, Papayas,
1. Needed for
Pumpkins, milk, 1. Dry skin,
Bone Growth
cheese, eggs, fish ( 2. Cloudy vision,
2. Good eye sight
Vitamin A cods and halibuts), 3. Night blindness
3. Tooth
green leafy 4. Blindness( in
development
vegetables such as extreme case)
4. Healthy skin
spinach
1. Helps the body to
Milk, butter, fish,
absorb calcium
egg yolks, cheese,
and strengthens
fruits and 1. Rickets
Vitamins Fat Vitamin D bones.
vegetables.
soluble 2. Helps in working
Sun light is an
of nerves and
Important source
muscles
Vitamin E Vegetable oils, 1. Helps red blood 1. Nerve damage
beans, eggs, grains cells to function 2. Retinopathy
and green properly 3. Ataxia
vegetables 2. It protects the
cells from
chemicals that
can damage
them.
 1. Severe loss of
1. Helps in clotting blood even
Green vegetables,
of blood from a slight
Vitamin K cheese, egg, milk
2. Helps to heal injury because
and vegetable oils.
wound the blood fails
Fat
to clot.
soluble
Helps the nervous
Vitamin 1. Numbness of
Bread, meat, peas, system to function
B1 hand and feet
nuts properly, aids in
2. Beriberi.
digestion.
1. Cracked lips
Vitamin Cheese, milk, Keeps skin and hair
Vitamins 2. Sore tongue,
B2 green vegetables healthy
3. rash
1. Vital for the
Water Vitamin nervous system.
 Fish and chicken 1. Pellagra
Soluble B3 2. Aids blood
circulation
Animal meats,
whole grains, milk 1. Hypoglycaemia
1. Production of RBC
Vitamin and milk products, 2. Restlessness
2. Synthesise of
B5 lentils, soya bean, 3. Nausea and
energy
egg yolk, wheat vomiting
germ
Vitamin Whole grains 1. Helps in the 1. Anaemia
B6 formation of RBC 2. Mental
2. Good for nerves confusion
 3. Good for immune
3. rashes
system
Vitamin 1. Synthesis of
Chocolate, milk,
B7 energy 1. Anorexia
yeast, pork, cereals
2. Proper function 2. dermatitis
and egg yolk
of nervous system
Dark green leafy 1. Cracking of
vegetables, 1. Optimal brain corners of
Vitamin sprouts, turnip, function mouth
B9 beetroot, soya 2. Production of RNA 2. Anaemia
beans and DNA 3. Nausea &
4. acne
1. Essential for
Vitamins Water growth of new
1. Memory loss
Soluble Vitamin Meat, fish, dairy cells
2. A type of
B12 products, eggs 2. Essential for the
Anaemia
health of spinal
cord
Vitamin C Citrus fruits such 1. Helps in fighting 1. Scurvy
as oranges and against infections
lime, caused by
gooseberries(amla) bacteria
, grape fruits, 2. Healing wounds
green leafy 3. Production of red
vegetables, onions, blood cells
tomatoes, radish,
sprouts and lentils
 1. Needed for the
Apple, banana,
formation of
spinach, brinjal,
Iron haemoglobin Anaemia
dates, pulses and
2. Maintenance of
meat
immune system
Milk, dairy
products, white 1. Keeps our bones
Calcium bread, green leafy and teeth hard Osteoporosis
Minerals vegetables, nuts, and strong
seeds and beans
Sea food, iodized
Needed for proper
salt, dairy products
Iodine functioning of the Goitre
and eggs
thyroid gland
1. Essential part of
Fruits, vegetables, all our body fluids
Potassiu
milk, bread, pulses, 2. Helps to regulate
m
meat and fish heart beat and
blood pressure