Articles of category "Vitamin intake"

Humans need a specific amount of daily vitamin intake, and this is derived from a combination of fruits, vegetables, meats and grain supplements. This article summarizes recommended daily allowances and other indexes in order to present an overview of daily vitamin intake of all the most common vitamins. For some vitamins, there is simply no recommended daily intake established so no value can be identified.

Originally the recommended daily vitamin requirements devised by the Nutrition and Food Board of the National Academy of Science were fixed at levels just to evade deficiency states. There are a growing number of experts, however, who stress that higher daily vitamin requirements may be beneficial in fending off diseases and improving health on the whole.