KINE 4020 Lecture Notes - Hypervitaminosis A, Cirrhosis, Bone Fracture
30 Mar 2014
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Cereal has fortified with k. the says 2% of daily requirement of cereal. If she consumes 2 servings per day with 2% milk at breakfast, which of the following is true (**test type questions) Ans: a and e. (calculation gives 188mg kday. Vitamin is one of the fat soluable vitamins , and in body exists as retinoids: retinol ; retinal and retinoic acid. All are forms of vit a but have specific roles. You don"t get vit a form food or plant, you get compound (carotenoids )that can be converted to vit a. The most well-known is beta carotene (because it gets converted to vit a much easily, readily, compared to the other compounds called retinyl esters) Animal foods retinyl esters and can be converted to retinol. You can measure by measuring it how much vit a is in your blood and you measure retinol (that is the form that moves from one part to another)
