Dear Students, As SSC CGL Tier-I 2017 is going to be conducted in the month of June/July. For GA Part will are providing all types of topics and notes. Today, in this post we are providing to you study Notes on “Vitamins” for SSC CGL and MTS Exam. Sometimes questions are asked from this topic as well, So memorize all these names and score better in the exam.
Vitamins, Their Sources and Diseases Caused
Due to Their Deficiencies
Due to Their Deficiencies
|
Name of the vitamin
|
Main source
|
Disease caused due to
their deficiencies |
|
Vitamin A
|
Milk, carrot, dark leafy greens, fish, dried apricots, etc.
|
Night blindness, dryness of skin (Dermatitis)
|
|
Vitamin B1 (Thiamine)
|
Cereals,
pulses, peas |
Beriberi
|
|
Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin)
|
Liver, spinach, mushrooms, milk
|
Cracking of skin , reddish eye
|
|
Vitamin B6 (Pyridoxine)
|
Fish, beef
liver, vegetables |
Anaemia ,dermatitis
|
|
Niacin (Nicotinic acid)
|
Peas, tomato, eggs
|
Pellagra and glossitis
|
|
Folic Acid
|
Green
leafy vegetables, meat, egg, dried beans ,nuts |
Megaloblast
and in pregnant birth defects |
|
Pentothenic Acid
|
meat, yeast , pork
,yogurt ,fish eggs |
Premature graying of hair, burning feet syndrome
|
|
Vitamin B12 (Cyanocobalamin)
|
Milk,
liver, meat ,milk |
Pernicious
anaemia |
|
Vitamin C (Ascorbic acid)
|
Lemons, oranges, fresh fruits and vegetables
|
Scurvy, sore mouth and gums bleeding
|
|
Vitamin D (Calciferol)
|
Dairy
products, sun rays, eggs, oily fish, milk |
Many
diseases of the bones, rickets in children, osteomalacia |
|
Vitamin E (Tocopherol)
|
Milk , soyabeans, egg yolk , butter
|
Interferes with reproduction and causes abortion and menstrual
irregularities |
|
Vitamin K (phylloquinone)
|
Fish, peas
and green vegetables |
Causes the
delayed clotting of blood |
