{"id":636,"date":"2019-06-12T15:28:31","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T15:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/plantfullness.com\/?p=636"},"modified":"2019-06-20T09:34:10","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T09:34:10","slug":"fat-soluble-vitamins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plantfullness.com\/vitamins\/fat-soluble-vitamins\/","title":{"rendered":"Fat-soluble vitamins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There are 13 vitamins of which 4 are fat-soluble rather than <a href=\"https:\/\/plantfullness.com\/vitamins\/water-soluble-vitamins\/\">water-soluble vitamins<\/a> these are A, D, <strong>E<\/strong>, and K<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Fat-soluble vitamins NEED Fat<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Fat-soluble vitamins provide&nbsp;the most benefit when consumed alongside fat-containing foods. These vitamins will not dissolve in water so best absorbed when taken with higher-fat foods. Once absorbed into the body, fat-soluble vitamins are stored in fatty tissues and liver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>Vitamin A<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This does not refer to one single vitamin but is a collection of compounds known as retinoids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Role:&nbsp;maintaining healthy vision&nbsp;and the immune system.<br>Food:&nbsp; Animal sources like liver provide the active components to help create retinols<br>Some plants also provide pro-vitamin A compounds known as carotenoid.&nbsp;The most common is called beta carotene found in Carrots, Kale and Spinach<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>Vitamin D<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/plantfullness.com\/vitamins\/vitamin-d\/\">Vitamin D<\/a> is a collective term used to describe a collection of compounds. Collectively, these are often referred to as calciferol. Produced naturally in the human body when the skin is exposed to the sunlight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Role:&nbsp;aids in bone health and development and&nbsp;immune system support<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are two types found naturally<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>vitamin D-3&nbsp;Cholecalciferol &nbsp;found in animal fats<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>vitamin D-2 Ergocalciferol &nbsp;found in plants, such as mushrooms which have been exposed to ultraviolet light<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>Vitamin E<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Role: An antioxidant that can help the body destroy free radicals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vitamin E is broken down into eight different types, with the two main kinds being tocopherols and tocotrienols. Tocopherol contains the most abundant form of vitamin E.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some water-soluble vitamins, such as C and B, help aid vitamin E&#8217;s functions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Food: wheat germ oil,&nbsp; sunflower seeds or oil, hazelnuts and almonds<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>Vitamin K<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Role:&nbsp;helps the body form blood clots and&nbsp;reducing the buildup of calcium in the blood<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>vitamin K-1, found in plant sources<br>vitamin K-2, found in animal sources<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Food: Kale, Spinach,&nbsp;parsley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are 13 vitamins of which 4 are fat-soluble rather than water-soluble vitamins these are A, D, E, and K Fat-soluble vitamins NEED Fat Fat-soluble vitamins provide&nbsp;the most benefit when consumed alongside fat-containing foods. These vitamins will not dissolve in water so best absorbed when taken with higher-fat foods. Once absorbed into the body, fat-soluble [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[69,46],"tags":[51,49],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plantfullness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plantfullness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plantfullness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plantfullness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plantfullness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/plantfullness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":978,"href":"https:\/\/plantfullness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions\/978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plantfullness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plantfullness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plantfullness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plantfullness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}