Bio Availability of Vitamin A and
Mango Fruit in Sindh Pakistan
by
Farzana Panhwar
Abstract.
Vitamin ‘A’ is a fact
soluble vitamin. It is essential for the promotion of normal growth,
nutrition prevention of deficiency and diseases. Its essential to
tissue health, especially in preventing pre-cancerous cells from
becoming cancerous. It is needed for skeleton development and normal
function of all tissues. Although vitamins are manufactured by plants
but they also present in animals diet and regulate metabolism and help
in conversion of carbohydrates and fats into energy. Sindh is having a
good source of vitamin ‘A’ in form of mango fruit. The various
varieties of mangoes have difference concentration of beta-carotene,
which are a precursor of vitamin ‘A’, and body covert it to vitamin
‘A’ (retinal) as body demand arises. This way it remains store in the
body for quite sufficient time. That is the reason the Sindh’s people
have shown only once in a while vitamin ‘A’ deficiency symptoms.
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