You take a vitamin tablet in the morning. Someone says "Eat your fruit and vegetables because they have vitamins." What's so important about vitamins? While they do not provide energy like protein from meat and sugar from breads, they do help to convert this energy into the energy your body uses.

Since our bodies can't make vitamins, we need to get them from the food we eat. There are 11 vitamins we need to get from the foods we eat.

Four of these vitamins dissolve in fat (are fat soluble). They are found in foods that contain fat and are stored in fat in our body - vitamins A, D, E, and K.

 

Seven of these vitamins dissolve in water (are water soluble). They are not stored in our body. The seven vitamins are B vitamins that include thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, folate, B6, B12, and vitamin C. There are many things vitamins do for us and some things they do not do. Here are some of the facts and myths about vitamins.