Vitamin A
vitaminA fat-soluble vitamin essential for vision, immune function, and skin health.
Definition
A fat-soluble vitamin essential for vision, immune function, and skin health. Found as retinol in animal foods and as beta-carotene (provitamin A) in plant foods. DV is 900mcg RAE.
๋นํ๋ฏผ A(Vitamin A)๋?
๋นํ๋ฏผ A๋ ์ง์ฉ์ฑ ๋นํ๋ฏผ์ผ๋ก, ๋ ๊ฐ์ง ์ฃผ์ ์์ด ํํ๋ก ์กด์ฌํฉ๋๋ค. ๋๋ฌผ์ฑ ์ํ์ ํจ์ ๋ ์ํํ ๋นํ๋ฏผ A(๋ ํฐ๋ ๋ฐ ์์คํฐํ ํํ์ธ ๋ ํฐ๋ ์์คํฐ)์, ์๋ฌผ์ฑ ์ํ์ ํจ์ ๋ ํ๋ก๋นํ๋ฏผ A ์นด๋กํฐ๋ ธ์ด๋(๊ฐ์ฅ ๋ํ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ฒ ํ์นด๋กํด)์ ๋๋ค. ๋ ํํ ๋ชจ๋ ์ฒด๋ด์์ ์๋ฌผํ์ ์ผ๋ก ํ์ฑ์ธ ๋์ฌ์ฐ๋ฌผ์ธ ๋ ํฐ๋ ๊ณผ ๋ ํฐ๋ ธ์ฐ์ผ๋ก ์ ํ๋ฉ๋๋ค.
์ฑ์ธ์ ๋นํ๋ฏผ A ์์ด ๊ถ์ฅ๋(RDA)์ ๋จ์ฑ ํ๋ฃจ 900 mcg RAE, ์ฌ์ฑ ํ๋ฃจ 700 mcg RAE์ ๋๋ค(RAE = ๋ ํฐ๋ ํ์ฑ ๋น๋). ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์์ ํ์์ ์ฌ์ฉ๋๋ ์ผ์ผ ๊ถ์ฅ๊ฐ(DV)์ 900 mcg RAE์ ๋๋ค.
์ฃผ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฅ
- ์๊ฐ: ๋ ํฐ๋ ์ ๋ง๋ ์ธํฌ์ ๊ด๊ฐ์์ฑ ๋จ๋ฐฑ์ง์ธ ๋ก๋์ ์ ๊ตฌ์ฑ ์ฑ๋ถ์ ๋๋ค. ๊ฒฐํ ์ ์ผ๋งน์ฆ์ด ๋ฐ์ํ๊ณ , ์ฌํด์ง๋ฉด ๊ฑด์ฑ์์ฆ(์๊ตฌ ๊ฑด์กฐ)๊ณผ ์ค๋ช ์ผ๋ก ์ด์ด์ง ์ ์์ต๋๋ค.
- ๋ฉด์ญ ๊ธฐ๋ฅ: ์ํผ ์ฅ๋ฒฝ(ํผ๋ถ, ์ฅ, ํธํก๊ธฐ)์ ๋ฌด๊ฒฐ์ฑ๊ณผ ๋ฉด์ญ ์ธํฌ์ ์ฆ์ ๋ฐ ๋ถํ๋ฅผ ์ง์ํฉ๋๋ค.
- ์ธํฌ ์ฑ์ฅ ๋ฐ ๋ถํ: ๋ ํฐ๋ ธ์ฐ์ ๋ฐฐ์ ๋ฐ๋ฌ๊ณผ ์กฐ์ง ์ ์ง์ ๊ด์ฌํ๋ ์ ์ ์ ๋ฐํ์ ์กฐ์ ํฉ๋๋ค.
- ์์: ์ ์์ ์ธ ์ ์ ์์ฐ๊ณผ ํ์ ๋ฐ๋ฌ์ ํ์ํฉ๋๋ค.
์ํ ๊ณต๊ธ์
| ์ํ | ๋นํ๋ฏผ A ํจ๋ (1ํ ์ ๊ณต๋น mcg RAE ๊ธฐ์ค) |
|---|---|
| ์ ๊ฐ (85 g) | 6,582 |
| ๊ณ ๊ตฌ๋ง (์ค๊ฐ ํฌ๊ธฐ 1๊ฐ, ๊ตฌ์ด ๊ฒ) | 961 |
| ์๊ธ์น (์กฐ๋ฆฌ 1/2 ์ปต) | 573 |
| ๋น๊ทผ (์ 1/2 ์ปต) | 459 |
| ์ ์ (240 mL) | 112 |
์๋ฌผ์ฑ ์ํ์ ์นด๋กํฐ๋ ธ์ด๋๋ ์ํํ ๋นํ๋ฏผ A๋ณด๋ค ๋ ํฐ๋๋ก์ ์ ํ ํจ์จ์ด ๋ฎ์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ํ ๋ด ๋ฒ ํ์นด๋กํด์ ์ ํ ๋น์จ์ ์ค๋ ๊ธฐ์ค ์ฝ 12:1์ ๋๋ค. ๊ฐ์ ์์ฌ์์ ์ง๋ฐฉ์ ํจ๊ป ์ญ์ทจํ๋ฉด ์นด๋กํฐ๋ ธ์ด๋ ํก์๊ฐ ํฅ์๋ฉ๋๋ค.
Top Food Sources
| # | Food | Amount per 100g | % DV |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ๏ผๅ็ฉๆฒน่้ก๏ผ ใใใฎใใถใ | 37000mcg | 4111% |
| 2 | Fish oil, cod liver | 30000mcg | 3333% |
| 3 | Beef, New Zealand, imported, variety meats and by-products, liver, raw | 28300mcg | 3144% |
| 4 | Veal, variety meats and by-products, liver, cooked, braised | 21100mcg | 2344% |
| 5 | Beef, New Zealand, imported, variety meats and by-products liver, cooked, boiled | 21000mcg | 2333% |
| 6 | Veal, variety meats and by-products, liver, cooked, pan-fried | 20100mcg | 2233% |
| 7 | Lamb, New Zealand, imported, liver, cooked, soaked and fried | 19900mcg | 2211% |
| 8 | ๏ผ็่้ก๏ผ ใถใ ๏ผปใใฎไป๏ผฝ ในใขใผใฏใฌใใผ | 17000mcg | 1889% |
| 9 | Lamb, New Zealand, imported, liver, raw | 15400mcg | 1711% |
| 10 | ๏ผ้ณฅ่้ก๏ผ ใซใใจใ ๏ผปๅฏๅ็ฎ๏ผฝ ่่ ็ | 14000mcg | 1556% |
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