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Characteristics of nutrients
- Fat-soluble vitamin
- Animal food contains vitamin A
- Botanical food contains β-carotene
- Absorption rate rises when ingested with oil
- Β-carotene becomes vitamin A according to the necessary amount in the body
Function of nutrients
- It has the effect of promoting skin metabolism
- To normalize the mucosa of the skin, throat, nose, gastrointestinal tract
- Prevent night blindness
When nutrients are deficient
- Night blindness
- Dry eye soreness
- Reduction of resistance to pathogenic bacteria in the part in contact with air
When nutrients overdose
- Difficult to overdose
- Β-carotene is converted to vitamin A by the necessary amount in the body
- Headaches, vomiting, rash, fatty liver, hair loss, gout, etc.

Food that contains a lot of Vitamin A
Foodstuff | Ingredient per 100g (㎍) |
carrot | 3800 |
green laver | 2700 |
sudachi | 360 |
sea-lettuce | 300 |
malabar-spinach | 260 |
kintoki-carrot | 250 |
ostrich-fern | 200 |
red-pepper | 190 |
string-beans | 150 |
bitter-melon | 100 |
hyacinth-bean | 79 |
Yellow sweet pepper | 71 |