Pantothenic Acid:
Used in energy metabolism. Found in meats, eggs and in many foods, its deficiency leads to fatigue, vomiting.

Riboflavin:
used in energy metabolism, healthy skin and supports vision. Found in food like dairy products, dark green leafy vegetables, whole grains and enriched bread and cereal. Deficiency leads to problems with eyes, sensitive to sun, skin rash, cracks at corners of mouth.

Thiamin:
Used in energy metabolism; nerves, tissue, and muscles depend on them. Found in pork, organ meats, legumes, nuts, and whole grains, enriched cereal. The deficiency leads to edema, heart damage, weakness, confusion, and paralysis.

Vitamin A:
Provides for healthy eyes, skin, bones and hormone synthesis. It is found in fortified milk, cheese, butter, liver, eggs, dark green leafy vegetables, deep orange fruits and vegetables. While the deficiency leads to poor teeth and bone growth; night blindness, diarrhea, joint pain, dry and itchy skin, cracked lips, nausea and vomiting, weight loss.

Vitamin B6:
Pused in amino acids and fatty acid metabolism; helps form red blood cells, healthy nervous system. Available in meat, poultry, fish, whole grains, enriched bread and cereal, legumes, green and leafy vegetables. Its deficiency leads to skin disorders, anemia, cracks in corners of mouth, convulsions, muscle twitching.
Vitamin B12:
helps form new cells, healthy nervous system. Available in meat, poultry, fish, eggs, milk, cheese. Deficiency leads to anemia, fatigue.

Vitamin C:
An antioxidant, help with wound healing, strengthen resistance to infection. Available from food like citrus fruits, broccoli, tomatoes, melons, and dark green leafy vegetables, cabbage, strawberries, potatoes. While its deficiency leads to anemia, infections, sore gums, muscle pain, joint pain.

Vitamin D:
Helps build strong bones and teeth, which can be found in foods like fortified milk, eggs, liver, and synthesis with sunlight. Deficiency leads to misshapen bones in children, softening of bones in adults and bone fractures.

Vitamin E:
Known to be an antioxidant, stabilizes cell membranes. Found in vegetable oils, green leafy vegetables, whole-grain products, and egg yolk. Its deficiency leads to anemia and weakness.

Vitamin K:
Helps to avoid Blood clotting. Available in foods like green leafy vegetables, cabbage, cauliflower, liver, and also made by bacteria in intestines. Its deficiency will lead to hemorrhaging (bleeding problems), and jaundice.

Potassium:
Helps control activity of heart muscles, nervous system, kidneys; rapid growth; muscle contractions and nerve tranquillization. It is available in meats, whole grains, dried fruits, dates, figs, peaches, nuts, seafood, bananas, apricots, vegetables, potatoes, cereals, milk, tea, coffee. While the Deficiency Symptoms are Respiratory failure, cardiac arrest, poor reflexes, dry skin, nervousness, irregular heartbeat (slow), insomnia, vomiting, pins and needles, low blood pressure, appetite loss.

Sodium:
Sodium is an electrolyte that helps maintain acid-base balance of the blood, helps regulate blood pressure and water balance in cells and aids in muscle contraction and nerve impulse transmission. However, too much salt can lead to high blood pressure and stroke. Highly processed foods such as crisps and processed meats usually contain large amounts of sodium.

Selenium:
Works with vitamin E; preserves tissue elasticity; protein utilization, proper functioning of red and white blood cells. The natural food sources are broccoli, onions, tuna, herring, bran and wheat germ, brewer's yeast, whole grain, seafood, egg yolk, garlic, kidney. The deficiency symptoms are premature aging, cardiovascular disease, and types of anemia.

Silicon:
This is essential for the repair, maintenance and formation of healthy connective tissue. The food source where this is available is unrefined high-fiber grains, cereal products, and root vegetables. While the deficiency is Impaired formation of bone and cartilage.

Vanadium:
Regulation of energy production enhances bone and tooth formation. The natural food source is available from Shellfish, mushrooms, parsley, and dill seed, black pepper. The deficiency Symptoms is depressed growth, plasma cholesterol.

Zinc:
Aids in digestion and metabolism of phosphorus and protein; component of insulin and male reproductive fluid; burn and wound healing process. Brewer's yeast, fish, soybeans, liver, spinach, mushrooms, sunflower seeds, red meat, egg yolk, dairy produce, cereals, seafood, wholegrain flour are the food sources. The Mineral Deficiency Symptoms are Sterility, delayed sexual maturity, loss of taste, poor appetite, fatigue, retarded growth, slow physical, mental and sexual development, and infertility.