Vitamins are chemical compounds that have been shown to be essential for life and occur in foods.

Whilst most of them can be produced in limited amounts in your body, your main source of supply is the food that you eat and your bodies have adapted to being extremely efficient at obtaining them.

Only small amounts of vitamins are required to be effective, but even these small amounts are essential to the basic functioning of your body - including disease resistance, hormone secretion, tissue repair and formation, reproduction, digestion, production of sweat and urine, and most importantly, the release of energy from the foods that you eat.

In fact, if you don’t get enough vitamins, you end up with poor general health or, in the extreme, specific vitamin deficient diseases - and even death!

There are 13 main vitamins that are either water or fat soluble. The difference between the two types is that whilst fat soluble vitamins can be stored in your organs, water soluble ones can't and so tend to be flushed out of your system after only a short time.

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