Dietandweight

Whether choosing prepared meals, cooking them based on the quality of the products or eating out every day… The real question that one does not ask but fundamental to his survival and the proper functioning of the body is your daily vitamins intake enough?

Vitamins are found in fruits and vegetables, what about ready-made prepared meals, heated meals, frozen food?

Vitamins are your allies

Essential for the proper functioning of vital functions in humans, vitamins act at several levels on the neural, enzymatic, biological and metabolic levels.

They are of two types of vitamins, those which show a soluble affinity with fatty substances such as vitamins A, D, E, K and water-soluble ones which have an affinity with water such as vitamins B and C.

These vitamins all have a well defined function in the body

Affinity

Vitamins

Functions

Fat-soluble

Vitamin A (Retinol or Beta-carotene)

  • Plays an important role for eyesight, skin and hair health and has effect on mucous membranes

  • Is involved in growth

Vitamin D (Calciferol)

  • Improves the absorption of calcium in the bones and teeth

  • Helps maintain the proper functioning of the immune system

Vitamin E (Tocopherols or Tocotrienols)

  • Protects against oxidative stress

  • Powerful anti-oxydant

Vitamin K

  • Takes part in blood coagulation

Water-soluble

Vitamins B

  • Help maintain the proper functioning of the immune system 

  • Are involved in the proper functioning of the nervous system

Vitamin C (ascorbic acid)

  • Stimulates the body’s immune system

  • Powerful anti-oxydant
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