• Cam
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    5 months ago

    Isn’t vit A the one we produce from carotenes? So technically we don’t need to ingest the vitamin itself if we eat enough of the pro-vitamin? Am I confusing it with other vitamin?

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      5 months ago

      Carotene is 10% absorption rate from my example (IIRC 30% from juice), but you still need to dissolve it in fat to get vitamin A.