Vitamins & Food
Discover which everyday foods provide the vitamins your body needs most. Learn practical ways to boost your vitamin intake through balanced, delicious meals.
Are Vitamin Enriched Soft Drinks Worth the Money?
Many drinks are advertised as ‘vitamin enriched’, which makes them seem healthier. But are they healthier or just more expensive, and are they really wor...
Are Vitamin Enriched Sweets and Snacks Worth the Money?
Increasing numbers of manufacturers are adding vitamin to snack foods, including savoury snacks and sweets (as well as drinks - see also ‘Are Vitamin Enric...
Are Vitamins in Food Better Than Supplements?
Vitamins are essential compounds that cannot be made by the body so must come from the diet. Vitamins are fat-soluble (vitamin A, vitamin D, vitamin E and vi...
Cooking to Preserve Vitamins
Vitamins are substances that are essential to health, and are not manufactured by the body (apart from vitamin D, which is produced in the skin when it is ex...
Do We Need to Buy Vitamin-enriched Cereals?
Many breakfast cereals are enriched with extra vitamins and minerals, and this can be a boon for busy parents, or people concerned that they are not getting...
Fun Facts: Which Foods Have the Most Vitamins?
Vitamin A Vitamin A (retinol) is a fat soluble vitamin (see ‘What Are Fat Soluble Vitamins?’) that is important for eyes (see ‘Nightblindness and Xerop...
Getting a Balanced Diet on a Low Income
It’s important for long-term health, especially for children, to eat a balanced and healthy diet. This can seem a lot harder on a low income, but it is pos...
Hints and Tips for a Vitamin Rich Diet
Keeping healthy includes getting all the right vitamins in the right amounts, and the best way to get these is through diet rather than vitamin supplements....
Vitamins and Dairy Products
When we think about getting plenty of vitamins in our daily diet most of us think about fruit and vegetables. Well, while it’s true that fruit and veg are...
Vitamins and Fruit
Most of us know that fruit is an essential part of getting our daily requirements of essential nutrients. But which fruits contain which vitamins and why are...
Vitamins and Meat
These days we’re always hearing about how we should eat up more fruit and vegetables and cut back on how much meat we eat. But can we get any essential nut...
Vitamins and Vegetables
Most of us know that when it comes to getting plenty of essential vitamins every day eating plenty of fresh vegetables is a great place to start. Not all our...
Vitamins and Vegetarians
For a fit healthy and strong body, we all need to maintain a healthy, balanced diet full of essential vitamins. But these days, many people choose to avoid m...
What is the RDA?
The RDA (recommended dietary [or daily] allowance) is the amount of each vitamin that people need every day. Apart from some or all of the necessary amount o...
Why Do Flour and Margarine Have Added Vitamins?
Products containing flour and margarine make up a large part of many people’s diets – flour in bread and cakes, and margarine on toast, in sandwiches, an...