1.How many compounds are classified as vitamins?

1.      How many compounds are classified as vitamins? (give the number)

2.      List all of the fat soluble vitamins.

3.      List all of the water soluble vitamins.

4.      What are the four water soluble B vitamins that are required by law to be added to refined grains in the United States?

5.      What is the difference between preformed vitamin A and provitamin A? Give an example of one food source for each.

6.      List two good food sources for vitamin D. What is the deficiency disease for vitamin D that occurs in children?

7.      Vitamin E protects the cell membranes because it functions as an__________.  List two good food sources of vitamin E.

8.      What are the main functions of vitamin K? What are the best food sources of vitamin K?

9.      Most of the B vitamins function as _______ in the energy production pathways of the cell such as the citric acid cycle where _____ is produced. 

10.  What is the deficiency disease for thiamin? What is the name of the thiamin deficiency that can occur in alcoholics?

11.  Niacin can be made in the body from the amino acid ________. The deficiency disease for niacin is _______. List the three symptoms of the deficiency disease the 3 D's). What is the fourth D?

12.  Deficiency of folate and folic acid in pregnancy can result in ______ (two words) birth defects, such as Spina Bifida. Give two good food sources for Folate.

13.   In order to be absorbed, vitamin B12 requires a protein produced in the stomach known as the _____ ______ (two words).  Naturally occurring vitamin B12 is only found in foods from what sources? 

14.  Vitamin C is also known as _______. The only naturally occurring food sources of vitamin C are found in what two food groups?

15.  Identify all of the Major Minerals.

16.  The majority of dietary sodium in the American diet comes from _______ ______ (two words). Excess dietary sodium is a risk factor for what chronic diseases?

17.  What are the best food sources for calcium? Calcium deficiency is a risk factor for________.

18.  What are the major functions of magnesium? Identify two good food sources for this mineral.

19.  List the major food sources for iron. What groups are most at risk for Iron -deficiency anemia?

20.  List the major functions for zinc. What are two good food sources for zinc?

21.  Selenium is part of selenoproteins, which function as ________ in the body. Deficiency of selenium is known as _____ _______ (two words).

22.  The major function of chromium is _______. List two good food sources of chromium.

23.  Iodine is needed for the production of the hormones produced by the _______ gland. The two deficiency diseases are _______ and _________.

24.  Now that you have completed a one day food diary and analyzed the micronutrients, what three vitamins do you feel you are most likely lacking in your diet? List one food for each of these that you can consume to provide these vitamins.

25.   What three minerals do you feel you are most likely lacking in your diet? List one food for each of these that you can consume to provide these minerals.