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Vegetables and foods as a great source of vitamins
January 9, 2010 by admin
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Are you confused about which foods and vegetables give
what sort of vitamins? what they do and how much of each you need daily?
VITAMIN A
Helps maintain normal reproduction, vision and immune function.
*Adults need: 700 to 900ug per day.
*Get it from: Liver, milk, egg yolks, sweet potatoes, mangoes and carrots.
Our bodies also convert the beta carotene that’s found in colourful fruits and vegetables into vitamin A.
*Eat: One cup of carrots contains 1171ug, while one medium mango consists of 828ug.
*Supplement fact: If you’re pregnant or planning a pregnancy, you should avoid supplements with vitamin A.
Did you know?
Vitamin A deficiency is the most common cause of preventative blindness in children from low-income countries.
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VITAMIN C
Helps wounds heal, improves your resistance to infection, produces collagen and functions as a highly effective antioxidant.
*Adults need: 30 to 40mg per day.
*Get it from: Berries, citrus fruits, tomatoes, capsicums, papayas and kiwi fruit.
*Eat: A medium-sized orange contains 69mg, while one cup of green capsicum has 77mg.
*Supplement fact: Large doses of vitamin C can cause diarrhoea.
Did you know?
Vitamin C is destroyed when exposed to heat. To up your intake, eat salads with capsicum and tomato.
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VITAMIM D
Promotes bone health and protects against cancer and heart disease.
*Adults need: 5ug per day and 10ug per day for those over 50.
*Get it from: Fortified dairy products, egg yok and cod liver oil as well as by spending some time in the sun.
*Eat: Some cod liver oil tablets contain 2.5ug. But vitamin D is difficult to obtain from dietary means alone, so getting some sun is best.
*Supplement fact: If you spend a lot of your time inside, you could be at risk of developing a vitamin D deficiency and should talk to your GP about taking a supplement.
Did you know?
Vitamin D was classified a ‘vitamin’ in the 1800s, when researchers realised boiled cod liver oil cured rickets.
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VITAMIN E
Protects the body against free radical damage (vitamin E is an antioxidant) and promotes a healthy heart and healthy skin.
*Adults need: 10mg per day.
*Get it from: Avocadoes, olive oil and seeds and nuts – particularly almomds.
*Eat: one avocado contains 3.6mg, while two tablespoons of sunflower seeds has 8.9mg.
*Supplement fact: Because vitamin E is capable of decreasing how well the blood clots, people taking an anticoagulant (blood thinning medication, such as aspirin) should avoid taking a supplement.
Did you know?
Vitamin E can help with fertility problems. It has been shown to increase sperm count when given to men.
Hopefully, we have cleared some aspects of vegetables as to what essential vitamins do they provide
to our diet…
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Vegetable Expoter, Supplier India | Exporting and Importing Vegetables
There are a lot of vegetable exporters and also they had given a great hand to the Indian exporting system. Vegetable exporting is one of the most important crops for the developing country like India. Vegetable exporters in India are concentrating mainly in the vegetable such as onion, carrot, French beans, potato, lemon, tapioca, tomato, etc…
In these vegetables onion stands first in exporting because onion cultivation is large in amount moreover India is the world’s largest country in exporting onions to all over the world. Because of these reasons all leading vegetable exporters give more attention in the onion. Among all vegetables onion needs low capital during the time of cultivation. So it makes larger profit to the vegetable exporters. There is a variety of onion for export. Red onions rose onions, podisu onions are the main category.
Another important crop for vegetable exporting is carrot. Vegetable suppler gives more attention for fresh carrots. A different variety of carrots are available in the Indian market and they are exported to the international market in reasonable rate. Most of the people from the entire world depends upon the Indian market for good quality stuff so the vegetable supplier in India looking care about the quality of the vegetable. French bean is another exporting vegetable; from the Indian market people can get good quality fresh green beans. This is highly nutritious and makes the man healthy.
Tapioca is another exporting vegetable. A large quantity of high quality tapioca is exporting from the Indian market. Tapioca is cultivated in large scale in India that is nearly 3 lakhs hectares. The vegetable exporter or vegetable supplier India exports normal tapioca and frozen skin-peeled Tapioca to the people.
In Indian market we can see a large variety of tomato and they are tasty also have high nutritious value. Capsicum is another exporting vegetable from India. The vegetable suppliers supply different varieties of capsicums like in different colors that are in red, yellow, and green. They supply capsicum to several countries in several continents.
One of the export vegetable in India is Chilly. There are a collection of different chilly can find in the Indian market. These different types of chilly are exported by the vegetable suppliers to all over the world.
Hence the vegetable products are leading Indian economy a lot. The vegetable suppliers are giving more attention to the high quality stuff and good packing of vegetables.
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