What determines the type of vitamins in each food?

Moment Of Um

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Kids & Family, Education For Kids

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🗓️ 18 October 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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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. Got a question that’s chewing at you? Send it to us at BrainsOn.org/contact, and we’ll help you digest the answer. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	From the brains behind brains on, this is the Moment of Um. Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Let's see. I need Mango for vitamin A, milk and eggs for vitamin B,
0:26.6	strawberries and lemon juice for vitamin C, but, bah, bah.
0:32.6	Ooh, I might need a bigger cup.
0:35.6	I'm making an alphabet smoothie.
0:38.5	I've got a big spelling B coming up, and I've been training by cramming my brain full of as many words as possible.
0:44.6	But I thought, why not cram my belly full of as many letters as I can, too, you know?
0:49.8	No, K-N-O-W.
0:52.2	No.
0:53.0	Oh, can't forget to add soybeans for some vitamin K.
0:56.9	I know there isn't a vitamin for every letter of the alphabet.
1:00.6	There's no vitamin S, for example.
1:03.4	Why are all the vitamins spread out across so many foods?
1:07.2	Why do citrus fruits have so much vitamin C and dairy so much vitamin B?
1:12.3	My smoothie would be a lot easier if all the vitamins were in just three ingredients.
1:17.4	I think Raya must have a similar smoothie problem because I sent in this question.
1:23.6	Hi, my name is Rea and I'm from Kentucky.
1:32.7	And my question is, what determines the type of vitamins in different types of food?
1:38.8	The type of vitamins found in each food depends on what the food is made out of.
1:41.8	My name is Anna Veloso and I'm a dietitian.
1:45.5	I work in New York City at a practice called body honor nutrition.
1:52.7	Foods that we buy or cook at home are made from different ingredients and each ingredient has different vitamins. To understand what vitamins are in each food, we can talk about the different kinds of vitamins
1:58.5	they are and where they are found. Vitamins are nutrients that the body needs and cannot make on its own.
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