Vitamin Sources and Deficiency & Sufficiency Diseases Chart
             Chemical
Vitamin                        Deficiency disease   Sufficiency disease   Food sources
             Name
                                                                          Orange, ripe yellow
             Retinol, retinal,
                               Nightblindness,                            fruits, leafy vegetables,
             and
Vitamin A                      Hyperkeratosis,      Hypervitaminosis A    carrots, pumpkin,
             carotenoids
                               and Keratomalacia                          squash, spinach, liver,
                                                                          soy milk, milk
                               Beriberi, Wernicke   Drowsiness or         Pork, oatmeal, brown
Vitamin B1   Thiamine          -Korsakoff           muscle relaxation     rice, vegetables,
                               syndrome             with large doses      potatoes, liver, eggs
                                                                          Dairy products, bananas,
Vitamin B2   Riboflavin        Ariboflavinosis                            popcorn, green beans,
                                                                          asparagus
                                                                          Meat, fish, eggs, many
             Niacin,                                Liver damage
Vitamin B3                     Pellagra                                   vegetables, mushrooms,
             niacinamide                            andother problems
                                                                          tree nuts
                                                    Diarrhea; possibly
             Pantothenic
Vitamin B5                     Paresthesia          nausea and            Meat, broccoli, avocados
             acid
                                                    heartburn.
             Pyridoxine,                            Impairment
                               Anemia peripheral                          Meat, vegetables, tree
Vitamin B6   pyridoxamine,                          of proprioception,
                               neuropathy                                 nuts, bananas
             pyridoxal                              nerve damage
                                                                          Raw egg yolk, liver,
                               Dermatitis, enteriti
Vitamin B7   Biotin                                                       peanuts, certain
                               s
                                                                          vegetables
                               Megaloblastic
                               anemia and
                                                    May mask
                               Deficiency during
                                                    symptoms of
             Folic acid,       pregnancy is                               Leafy vegetables, pasta,
Vitamin B9                                          vitamin B12
             folinic acid      associated                                 bread, cereal, liver
                                                    deficiency;
                               with birth defects,
                                                    Other effects.
                               such as neural
                               tube defects
             Cyanocobalami
             n,                Megaloblastic                              Meat and other animal
Vitamin B12                                         Acne-like rash
             methylcobalami    anemia                                     products
             n
                                                    Vitamin C             Many fruits and
Vitamin C    Ascorbic acid     Scurvy
                                                    megadosage            vegetables, liver
             Cholecalciferol,  Rickets and                                Fish, eggs, liver,
Vitamin D                                           Hypervitaminosis D
             Ergocalciferol    Osteomalacia                               mushrooms
                               Deficiency is very   Increased congestive
                                                                          Many fruits and
             Tocopherols,      rare; mildhemolytic  heart failure seen in
Vitamin E                                                                 vegetables, nuts and
             tocotrienols      anemia in newborn    one large
                                                                          seeds
                               infants.             randomized study.
                                                    Increases
                                                                          Leafy green vegetables
             phylloquinone,                         coagulation in
Vitamin K                      Bleeding diathesis                         such as spinach, egg
             menaquinones                           patients taking
                                                                          yolks, liver
                                                    warfarin.
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