Chart of Vitamin & Minerals Deficiency Diseases | Vitamin Food Chart
Chart of vitamin deficiency diseases:
Someone rightly said “we are what we eat”. We eat different things every day and our body absorbs the nutrients from them and fulfills its needs. Nutrients of different nature are found in different foods. Sometimes the deficiency of certain nutrients leads to some diseases .These diseases are called as vitamin and mineral Dificiency disease. If we take our food properly then we can avoid these dificiency diseases.
Let us know some of the vitamins and minerals which are essential for our body. And foods rich in vitamins and minerals. So that we stay healthy and fit and avoid dificiency diseases.
chart of vitamin deficiency diseases:
Vitamin type |
Dificiency disease |
Vitamin rich foods |
|---|---|---|
| Vitamin A | Night Blindness | Egg, fish, liver, sweet potato, carrot, mangoes etc. |
| Vitamin B1 | Beri Beri | seeds, nuts, beans, tofu, brown rice etc. |
| Vitamin B2 | Retarted growth, bad skin | dairy milk, yogurt, cheese, egg, salmon etc. |
| Vitamin B6 | Anaemia, skin disorder | peanuts, soyabean, oats, bananas etc. |
| Vitamin B12 | Anaemia | egg, milk, yogurt, beef, liver, cheese |
| Vitamin C | Scurvy | Brocolli, kiwi, strawberry, papaya, guava, lemon, amla etc. |
| Vitamin D | Rickets | flesh of fatty fish, cheese, liver, milk, mushroom, tofu |
| Vitamink | decreased blood coagulation | green leafy vegetables, soybeen, natto, kale etc. |
These were the some of the important vitamins difficiency diseases list along with the names of foods which are rich in these respective vitamins. Now let us know some minerals along with their deficiency diseases in the form of a easy chart.
Chart of Minaral Deficiency Diseases :
Mineral |
Dificiency desease |
Mineral rich food |
|---|---|---|
| Iodine | Goitre, enlarged thyroid gland. | seaweed, fish(cod, tuna), shrimp, milk, yogurt, cheese etc |
| Iron | Anaemia | spinach, soyabean, dark chocolate, lentils, oysters etc. |
| Calcium | brittle bones, excessive bleeding | dairy products, figs, yogurt, dark green leafy vegetables, oranges etc. |
| Copper | low appetite, Retarted growth | mashroom, beef liver, oysters, cashew nuts, tofu, dark chocolate etc. |
| Phosphorus | Bad teeth and bones | red meat, poultry, dairy products, beans, yeast etc. |
| Sodium | Hyponatremia | pizza, sandwiches, salad, cheese, pickels, tommato sauce etc. |
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