[One-minute self-test] See which vitamin you are lacking

Various vitamins have multiple beauty and health benefits, and many functional skin care products also use a certain vitamin as the main ingredient. Below, the editor will introduce several vitamins that are most closely related to beauty and health. Don’t miss them.

Vitamin A deficiency

People with dry eyes, photophobia, excessive tears, blurred vision, and dry and rough skin should eat more carrots, animal liver, eggs, milk, etc.; people who watch TV often and patients with cardiovascular diseases should eat more carrots.

Vitamin B1 deficiency

People who suffer from numbness in hands and feet, poor complexion, indigestion, multiple neuritis and beriberi should eat more brown rice, red beans, tomatoes, peanuts and other foods.

Vitamin B2 deficiency

People who suffer from angular cheilitis, glossitis, cheilitis, eye inflammation, skin inflammation, and secondary anemia should supplement with foods such as flour, millet, peanuts, beans, meat, and eggs.

Vitamin B3 deficiency

People who suffer from insomnia, bad breath, unexplained headaches, and mental fatigue should take vitamin B3 tablets.

Vitamin B5 deficiency

People who are prone to dermatitis, diarrhea, and neuritis should consume more milk, eggs, and fresh vegetables.

Vitamin B6 deficiency

People with muscle spasms, non-healing wounds, and excessive nausea and vomiting during pregnancy should take vitamin B6 tablets.

Vitamin B12

People who suffer from loss of appetite, poor memory, lack of concentration, sparse yellow hair, and pale skin should take more animal liver and yeast.

Vitamin C deficiency

People who are prone to nosebleeds, swollen and painful gums, dry mouth, easy to catch colds, and slow wound healing should eat more vegetables and fruits such as radishes, bean sprouts, oranges, and hawthorns.

Vitamin D deficiency

Children with excessive sweating on the head are prone to rickets, and adults with osteomalacia should get more sun exposure and take cod liver oil.

Vitamin E deficiency

People who suffer from weakness in the limbs, easy sweating, dry skin, split hair, mental tension and dysmenorrhea should eat more green leafy vegetables and vegetable oils.

Vitamin K deficiency

People who have difficulty stopping bleeding or blood clotting should eat more vegetables and fish.

Vitamin M (folic acid) deficiency

Pregnant women with megaloblastic anemia and infants with nutritional macrocytic anemia who have cranial nerve damage should supplement with vitamin M tablets, green leafy vegetables, animal liver and kidneys, etc.

When taking vitamins, you should pay attention to:

If you take vitamins on an empty stomach, they will be excreted in the feces before the body has time to absorb and utilize them. Fat-soluble vitamins such as vitamin A can only be absorbed by the gastrointestinal mucosa when dissolved in fat. They should be taken after meals so that they can be more completely absorbed by the human body.

Where do vitamins live?

Vitamin A: found in animal liver, eggs, dairy products, carrots, pumpkin, bananas, oranges and some green leafy vegetables.

Vitamin B1: found in sunflower seeds, peanuts, soybeans, pork, and cereals.

Vitamin B6: found in meat, grains, vegetables and nuts.

Vitamin B12: found in pork, beef, mutton, fish, poultry, shellfish and eggs.

Vitamin C: found in lemons, oranges, apples, jujubes, strawberries, peppers, potatoes, and spinach.

Vitamin D: found in cod liver oil, eggs, margarine, milk, and tuna.

Vitamin E: cereal embryos, vegetable oils, green leaves.

Vitamin K: found in green leafy vegetables.

Vitamin Advice

Eating fresh vegetables and fruits is the simplest and safest way to supplement vitamins. Do not take vitamin supplements in large doses for a long time!

Don’t treat vitamins as “tonics”

Vitamins are one of the seven major nutrients for the human body, and more than 20 kinds of vitamins have been discovered. They are all essential substances for maintaining the normal functions of human tissue cells. Therefore, many people regard vitamins as a kind of "tonic", believing that the more vitamins the better. In fact, blindly and indiscriminately using vitamins will inevitably lead to the opposite effect of vitamins - endangering health.