Vitamins

Water Soluble

• Vitamins are dissolvable in water

Vitamin B

• Helps make new cells
• Broccoli and dark leafy greens
• Spina bifida

Vitamin C

• Protects against infection
• Citrus fruits, broccoli
• Scurvy

Fat Soluble

• Dissolves in fats or oils

Vitamin K

• Helps blood clot normally
• Found in kale and spinach
• Bleeding and bruising

Vitamin A

• Promotes good vision, hair and skin
• Carrots and sweet potatoes
• Night Blindness

Vitamin D

• Builds and maintains bone and teeth strength
• Milk and sunlight
• Rickets

Vitamin E

• Protects white and red blood cells
• Almonds and swiss chard
• Poor nerve connection, neurological problems

Minerals

Calcium

• Strengthen bones and teeth
• Dairy products and whole grains
• Osteoporosis ( weak, brittle bones )

Iron

• Makes red blood cells
• Meat and green vegetables
• Anemia

Sodium/ Potassium

• Maintain fluid balance
• Salt and beets
• Muscle cramps, seizures, irregular heart beats