{"id":485,"date":"2022-12-20T14:24:57","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T11:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicinehospital.com.tr\/?p=485"},"modified":"2025-02-07T13:35:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T13:35:25","slug":"what-is-vitamin-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlasuniversitesihastanesi.com\/en\/what-is-vitamin-a\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Vitamin A?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vitamin A is a general term for the fat-soluble retinoid, including retinol, retinal, and retinyl esters, depending on whether it is derived from an animal or a plant in the food source.<\/p>\n<p>Vitamin A found in foods obtained from animals is called preformed vitamin A or retinol.<\/p>\n<p>Vitamin A found in fruits and vegetables is called provitamin A carotenoid. Carotenoids are converted to retinol in human cells and exhibit vitamin A activity. Other provitamin A carotenoids include alpha-carotene and beta-cryptoxanthin. The compound that exhibits the most vitamin A activity among carotenoids is beta-carotene.<\/p>\n<p>Excess vitamin A in the body is stored as retinyl esters in the liver.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>What are the Benefits of Vitamin A?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The benefits of vitamin A can be listed as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Vitamin A contributes to normal iron metabolism.<\/li>\n<li>Vitamin A contributes to the maintenance of normal mucous membranes.<\/li>\n<li>Vitamin A contributes to the maintenance of normal skin.<\/li>\n<li>Vitamin A contributes to the maintenance of normal vision.<\/li>\n<li>Vitamin A contributes to the normal function of the immune system.<\/li>\n<li>Vitamin A plays a role in cell specialization.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Which Foods Contain Vitamin A?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Foods containing vitamin A are divided into two groups. It is found as retinol in animal-based foods and as carotenoids (beta-carotene being the most active) in plant-based foods. Vitamin A is naturally present in many foods and is also found in some fortified foods such as milk and cereals.<\/p>\n<p>Foods that contain vitamin A include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Animal products such as beef liver<\/li>\n<li>Egg yolks<\/li>\n<li>Some fatty fish species like salmon<\/li>\n<li>Green leafy vegetables and other green, orange, and yellow vegetables such as broccoli, carrots, and squash<\/li>\n<li>Fruits including cantaloupe, apricot, and mango<\/li>\n<li>Breakfast cereals<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vitamin A is a general term for the fat-soluble retinoid, including retinol, retinal, and retinyl esters, depending on whether it is derived from an animal or a plant in the food source. Vitamin A found in foods obtained from animals is called preformed vitamin A or retinol. Vitamin A found in fruits and vegetables is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-guide"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlasuniversitesihastanesi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlasuniversitesihastanesi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlasuniversitesihastanesi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlasuniversitesihastanesi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlasuniversitesihastanesi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atlasuniversitesihastanesi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26471,"href":"https:\/\/atlasuniversitesihastanesi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions\/26471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlasuniversitesihastanesi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlasuniversitesihastanesi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlasuniversitesihastanesi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlasuniversitesihastanesi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}