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Micronutrients found in food are one of the main groups of nutrients that are useful and essential for the body. It includes minerals and vitamins that play an important role in energy production, immunity, increased resistance and strong bones.
1. What are micronutrients?
Micronutrients are substances that our body only needs in a small amount but they are indispensable in the body. The lack of it will cause many consequences affecting your own health. They build cells, tissues, respiratory, metabolic, and excretory activities of cells, build the body's immune system.
In our body, there exist about 90 different micronutrients that bring essential benefits to the body, fat-soluble vitamins such as: Vitamins A, D, E, K and minerals; B vitamins:
Vitamin A: Has effects and benefits for the eyes and strengthens the body's immune system to fight infections and infections. Vitamin A deficiency is an extremely harmful thing for children's development or infections such as diarrhea, respiratory infections, dry cornea, blindness. Iron: This is an important substance in the composition of blood, it participates in the process of hematopoiesis. Iron deficiency affects physical and mental health, impaired intelligence, poor resistance to disease. In chicken liver, chicken gizzards and egg yolks are rich in iron. Zinc: An ingredient in the body that has the function of increasing absorption, increasing protein synthesis, making us eat more delicious, strengthening the immune system and helping children to increase good height. When the body does not have enough zinc, children will have anorexia, poor appetite, and are prone to body infections. Iodine: Our body needs iodine every day because it is an essential substance for the thyroid gland. When the mother is pregnant, the baby in the fetus will be affected by the brain, leading to the baby being born with cretinism and neural tube birth defects. When children start school age, if children do not add enough iodine, poor memory affects the learning process. Vitamin C: A substance that helps form collagen, stimulates the small intestine to absorb iron. When the body does not have enough vitamin C, it will affect the teeth and gums, weak blood vessels, easy to bleed, tired children playing activities. Vitamin D and calcium: These are two micronutrients that have important effects in the body with the role of forming teeth and developing bones. When the body does not have enough vitamin D and calcium, it will make children's teeth slow to grow, not sleep well, or twist, sweat a lot. The early morning sunlight will have vitamin D, so we must take advantage to get certain benefits for the body and eat foods containing vitamin D such as eggs, liver and fish oil. B group vitamins: This group of vitamins is extremely important and necessary in the body's energy metabolism, creating red blood cells and keeping the nervous system healthy.
Vi chất dinh dưỡng là các chất mà cơ thể của chúng ta chỉ cần với một số lượng ít nhưng chúng không thể thiếu trong cơ thể
2. Where do micronutrients come from?
2.1. Micronutrients are supplemented directly, from synthetic sources
When the body is deficient in micronutrients, this is considered a short-term solution, helping the body to have micronutrients supplemented by tablets iron to prevent nutritional anemia; Use iodine to prevent goiter and thyroid diseases.
2.2. Micronutrients from foods fortified with micronutrients
In the food we eat every day, it will help increase micronutrients into the body for a certain amount.
Daily essential foods are an extremely simple, highly effective and diverse way to supplement the micronutrients of daily meals, it helps to enhance micronutrients for the body. When the body lacks micronutrients, we need to supplement daily, increase the food rich in micronutrients to help the body stay healthy and better.
2.3. Micronutrients from natural food sources
We improve our daily meals, which is a long-term and basic, highly effective measure to help our own diets be complete and nutritional needs. balanced nutrition. There are forms of micronutrient origin such as plant and animal origin, which will supplement the micronutrients and will be obtained from a variety of daily diets for their bodies. ta.
Trong thực phẩm hằng ngày chúng ta ăn sẽ giúp tăng cường vi chất dinh dưỡng vào cơ thể cho một lượng nhất định
3. Food sources rich in micronutrients
3.1. Plant sources:
Beta-carotene is a precursor of Vitamin A, they are abundant in yellow and red vegetables and fruits: carrots, tomatoes, pumpkins, oranges, mangoes, papayas, watermelons... and green leafy vegetables such as water spinach, water spinach, spinach, broccoli. In these vegetables, there are also high concentrations of iron and vitamin C. In the body, when the vitamin C content is high, it helps to absorb iron better.
Vitamin C is a very good micronutrient, but currently not many people know that Vitamin C is an essential beauty agent for the body, they prevent signs of aging, strengthen the vessel walls, bring give us a healthy and beautiful skin. What's more, vitamin C regenerates other antioxidants in the body.
Vitamin C is also a powerful antioxidant, so that includes citrus fruits, apples, tomatoes, and more.
3.2. Animal sources
In animal liver, egg yolks, meat... have a lot of vitamin A. Foods like red meat will contain a lot of iron, in shrimps they contain zinc... ..With infants to have enough zinc content for the body, mothers should breastfeed their babies more because in breast milk, the zinc content will be better absorbed than formula milk.
Vitamin C là một vi chất dinh dưỡng rất tốt
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