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THE BABYWORLD VITAMIN GUIDEIt's essential to make sure that your child's diet contains all the necessary vitamins to aid healthy growth and development. This chart provides all the information you need: Vitamin A Vitamin A
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Functions: Promotes healthy eyes; protects against respiratory infection; promotes growth; encourages healthy bones, teeth and gums; an antioxidant
Betacarotene
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Functions: Converts to vitamin A; is an antioxidant.
Vitamin B1 - thiamine
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Functions: Provides energy; aids carbohydrate digestion; helps nervous system, muscles, heart and mental function; reduces stress.
Vitamin B2 - riboflavin
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Functions: Promotes growth, healthy hair, skin and nails; helps to metabolise carbohydrates, fats and proteins; energy production; stress handling.
Vitamin B3 - nicotinic acid
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Functions: Essential for sex hormones, thyroid hormone, insulin, cortisone and glucose tolerance. Necessary for the nervous system and brain; helps metabolism and energy; keeps blood fats balanced.
Vitamin B5 - pantothenic acid
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Functions: Vital for the adrenal glands; aids the conversion of fats and carbohydrates into energy; helps manufacture antibodies; promotes wound healing.
Vitamin B6
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Functions: Produces antibodies and red blood cells needed to help absorb Vitamin B12 and to aid protein metabolism.
Vitamin B12
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Functions: Promotes growth; improves concentration and encourages a healthy nervous system.
Folic acid
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Functions: Necessary to help the body use proteins and carbohydrates; forms antibodies; wards of anaemia; and protects against neural tube defects early in pregnancy.
Biotin
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Functions: Aids metabolism of fats and proteins; maintains healthy skin, scalp and hair.
Choline
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Functions: Aids memory; controls cholesterol build- up; helps detoxification by eliminating toxins and drugs from the liver.
Vitamin C - ascorbic acid
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Functions: Healthy immune system; anti- viral; anti- bacterial; boosts formation of skin, bone, cartilage and connective tissue including gums and blood vessels; needed to help the body cope with stress.
Vitamin D - calciferol
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Functions: Needed for bone and teeth formation; works with vitamins A and C to prevent colds.
Vitamin E
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Functions: Antioxidant; protects cell membranes; helps prevent scarring; anticoagulant; and protects against chlorinated water.
Vitamin K
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Functions: Essential for blood clotting agent; useful in bone metabolism.
Where to next?
- Check up on the essential minerals in your child's diet with our essential mineral guide
- For healthy recipe ideas browse through babyworld's recipe archive
- Want to talk with babyworld members about feeding your child? Join the discussion
