Fat-Soluble Vitamins

A vitamin that can dissolve in fats and oils. Fat-

soluble vitamins are absorbed along with fats in
the diet and can be stored in the body's fatty
tissue.
Vitamin A (retinol)
Dietary Sources
Egg yolk, butter, fish oil,
dairy products, green
vegetables
Functions Symptoms of deficiency
-For the formation of -Vision problems
light-sensitive pigment in -Cornea becomes dry and
the retina. opaque
-Acta as an antioxidant by -Scaly skin
combining with free
radicals are produced
when body cells generate
and use energy
-Manitenance of
epithelial tissues
-Delays the ageing
process
Vitamin D

Dietary sources Functions Symptoms of deficiency

Dairy products, eggyolk, -Aids in the absorption of -Rickets

cod liver oil, milk, (also calcium and phosphorus -Deformities
synthesised in human ion in the small intestine - Stunted growth in
skin in the presence of and the use of these ions children
sunlight) in the formation of bones -Osteomalacia
and teeth.
-Promotes bone growth.
Vitamin E (tocopherol)

Dietary sources Functions Symptoms of deficiency

Wheatgerm, nuts, green -Produces red blood cells -A range of disorders in

vegetables, grains, live -Acts as an antioxidant, different species,
oil, milk as it combines easily with including muscular
unstable metabolic dystrophy, liver damage
products(free-radicals) and infetility
- Prevents damage to -May also cause anaemia
phospholipids in plasma
membrane, so
maintaining their
structure.
Vitamin K (phylloquinone)

Dietary sources Functions Symptoms of deficiency

Egg yolk, cabbage, -Important in blood -Defective blood clotting

spinach, a form of the clotting which leads to excessive
vitamin is synthesised by bleeding
intestinal bacteria -Anaemia