What determines the type of vitamins in each food?

Moment of Um

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🗓️ 18 October 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

We eat food to power our bodies and keep us healthy. After all, food is full of the vitamins we need to survive. If you need vitamin C, try an orange. Vitamin B? Eggs or meat. But why do some foods have certain vitamins and other foods don’t? What determines which foods have which vitamins? We asked nutritionist Ana Veloso to help us find the answer.

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0:00.0	From the brains behind brains on, this is the moment of um.
0:04.0	Moment of um.
0:06.0	Moment of um comes to you from APM Studios.
0:12.0	I'm Anna G.
0:14.0	Um...
0:15.0	Let's see. I need mango for vitamin A, milk and eggs for vitamin B, strawberries and lemon juice for
0:30.4	vitamin C, bah baa. I might need a bigger cup. I'm making an alphabet smoothie. I've got a big
0:39.0	spelling bee coming up and I've been training by cramming my brain full of as many words as possible.
0:44.8	But I thought, why not cram my belly full of as many letters as I can too, you know?
0:50.0	No, K N O W. No, oh, can't forget to add soybeans for some vitamin K.
0:56.3	I know there isn't a vitamin for every letter of the alphabet.
1:00.4	There's no vitamin S for example.
1:03.0	But why are all the vitamins spread out across so many foods?
1:07.0	Why do citrus fruits have so much vitamin C and dairy so much vitamin B?
1:12.0	My smoothie would be a lot easier if all the vitamins were in just three ingredients.
1:17.0	I think Raya must have a similar smoothie problem because I sent in this question.
1:24.0	Hi, my name is Raya and I'm from Kentucky
1:27.6	and my question is, what the terms
1:29.9	the type of vitamins and different types of food.
1:34.0	The type of vitamins found in each food depends on what the food is made out of.
1:39.0	My name is Anna Valoso and I'm a dietician.
1:42.0	I work in New York City at a practice called body honor nutrition.
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