Growing your own edible crops is rewarding, tasty, and perhaps most importantly, nutritious!
Vitamins and minerals are found in all of them.
But which ones are the best sources of vitamin E?
This essential nutrient serves many functions in our bodies. Luckily, you can easily boost your daily dose by growing plant-based sources in your own backyard, and enjoying the harvest.
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What Is Vitamin E?
Vitamin E is one of the fat-soluble vitamins, along with A, D, and K. (C and B-complex vitamins, on the other hand, are water soluble).
Our bodies absorb these fat-soluble nutrients best – i.e. they are the most readily bioavailable – when foods that contain them are consumed along with foods that are high in fat. In the case of vitamin E, many of the foods that contain it also contain fat naturally!
Fat soluble vitamins can also be stored within our body fat. Though rare among those who get their vitamins from natural sources, it is possible to have too much of a good thing when taking supplements. Talk to your doctor about the appropriate dosage if you choose to take supplements.
There are eight different forms of vitamin E that occur naturally, however, not all of them are particularly beneficial to us in terms of bioavailability. Alpha-tocopherol is the type best utilized in our bodies, or the most biologically “active” form, while the other forms don’t bind well to proteins in the liver and are partially excreted.
The recommended daily allowance for adults over 19 years of age is 15 milligrams.
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