{"id":15642,"date":"2020-06-17T09:00:03","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T13:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=15642"},"modified":"2020-05-26T12:15:13","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T16:15:13","slug":"nutrition-hotline-vitamin-a-toxicity-and-plant-foods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2020\/06\/17\/nutrition-hotline-vitamin-a-toxicity-and-plant-foods\/","title":{"rendered":"Nutrition Hotline: Vitamin A Toxicity and Plant Foods"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The latest Nutrition Hotline column in Vegetarian Journal<\/em> by Reed Mangels, PhD, RD focuses on Vitamin A Toxicity and Plant Foods. A reader had asked, \u201cIf I eat a lot of carrots and sweet potatoes, do I have to worry about vitamin A toxicity?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dr. Mangels\u2019 response begins with, \u201cThe short answer is, \u201cNo, you won\u2019t develop a vitamin A toxicity from eating a lot of carrots and sweet potatoes. There are two forms of vitamin A in food. The first, called preformed vitamin A retinol, or retinyl ester, is found in foods from animal sources including dairy products, fish, and meat. This form of vitamin A would only be found in a vegan diet in supplements and fortified foods. Preformed vitamin A can be chemically synthesized.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The second form of vitamin A comes from provitamin A carotenoids. These substances, which our body uses to make vitamin A, are found in plants, especially dark orange or yellow vegetables and fruits, leafy green vegetables, and tomatoes. The most important provitamin A carotenoid is beta-carotene.<\/p>\n

The two other provitamin A carotenoids are alpha-carotene and beta-cryptoxanthin. Even large amounts of the provitamin A carotenoids over a long period of time aren\u2019t associated with vitamin A toxicity.\u201d<\/p>\n

The entire column can be read here: https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/journal\/vj2020issue2\/2020_issue2_nutrition_hotline.php<\/a><\/p>\n

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The latest Nutrition Hotline column in Vegetarian Journal by Reed Mangels, PhD, RD focuses on Vitamin A Toxicity and Plant Foods. A reader had asked, \u201cIf I eat a lot of carrots and sweet potatoes, do I have to worry about vitamin A toxicity?\u201d \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dr. Mangels\u2019 response begins with, \u201cThe short answer is, \u201cNo, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15644,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15642\/revisions\/15644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}