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There are many foods that can be converted into vitamin A. These include carrots, leafy greens, as well as some vegetable oils.

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What food can be converted to vitamin a in the body?

Beta-carotene


What is the substance in food that helps maintain the body?

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A compound in food that can be converted into an active vitamin inside the body is known as?

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Beta-carotene is consumed with food such as carrots and is converted into vitamin that is used as a photopigment and regulates embryonic development?

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What is converted to vitamin A in the body?

Your body gets vitamin A from food sources such as liver, carrots, butter, egg, milk, and many more. In these foods there are the many forms of vitamin A. Some forms include Retinol, alpha-carotene, beta-carotene, as well as 2 or 3 more carotenes. Your body does not make vitamin A; it absorbs it.


What the meaning of assimilate?

To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between., To liken; to compa/e., To appropriate and transform or incorporate into the substance of the assimilating body; to absorb or appropriate, as nourishment; as, food is assimilated and converted into organic tissue., To become similar or like something else., To change and appropriate nourishment so as to make it a part of the substance of the assimilating body., To be converted into the substance of the assimilating body; to become incorporated; as, some kinds of food assimilate more readily than others.


What kind of food does the body not store?

The kind of food does the body not store vitamin C found fruits and vegetables


What are food that gives vitamin?

Carrots give vitamins to your body.


What provides nutrients to the body?

Food and sunlight (vitamin D).


What nutrients does sunshine produce in the body?

vitamine A witch will be transformed to vitamine D by the human body


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In presence of ultraviolet rays of sun Cholesterol in skin is converted to Cholecalciferol. then in Liver it get converted to 25 Cholecalciferol. then in kidney, it get converted to 1,25 Cholecalciferol. Which is active form of Vitamin D. Also called as Calitriol. If execass of Vitamin 'D' is ingested as in Cod Liver intake, then body converts it into 24, 25 cholecalciferol, which is almost inactive form of Vitamin 'D'. You have almost no Vitamin 'D' in diary food or any other food. So almost all people have subclinical vitamin 'D' deficiency, except people living in polar area. (Who almost never get heart attack.) so Vitamin 'D' should be added by government in food. Calcitriol deposites calcium salt in bones, enhance absorption of calcium salts from intestine, Reabsorbs calcium ion from kidney.