What is the most useful food for eyes?!


Question: What is the most useful food for eyes!?
Answers:
Most useful for eyes probably is Vitamin A!.

Vitamin A is an essential human nutrient!. Vitamin A actually refers to a family of similarly shaped molecules: the retinoids!.

Vitamin A may be found in various forms:

- retinol, the form of vitamin A absorbed when eating animal food sources, is a yellow, fat-soluble, vitamin with importance in vision and bone growth!. Since the alcohol form is unstable, the vitamin is usually produced and administered in a form of retinyl acetate or palmitate!.

- other retinoids, a class of chemical compounds that are related chemically to vitamin A, are used in medicine!.

The absorption of provitamins depends greatly on the amount of lipids ingested with the provitamin; lipids increase the uptake of the provitamin!. Meaning, if you eat carrots you should eat something fatty with it!.

Sources of Vitamin A

Vitamin A is found naturally in many foods:

- liver (beef, pork, chicken, turkey, fish)
- carrots (835



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