HEALTHY eyes rely on a wide range of food and minerals. Here are the vitamins you want to maintain a good vision
Vitamin A. It may protect surfaces in the eye against oxidative damage and is believed to have a role in the fixing of cells that have been injured. Foods with Vitamin An are liver, dairy foods and eggs.
Vitamin C. It is present in high concentrations in the tissues of the eye. Inadequacies could lead to many eye Problems.
Foods high in Vitamin C are kalamansi, blackcurrants, strawberries and citrus fruits.
*Zinc. It is present in several tissues in the eye, where it is assumed to play a protecting role against age-related wear.
Eggs, seafood, meat, nuts and legumes all are high in zinc. Potatoes in Britain, everyone eats 207lb of this flexible vegetable every year and surveys suggest two-thirds of us believe - in the case of the jacket spud at least - that it qualifies as one of our suggested 'five portions of fruit and veg a day '. However amazingly, it doesn't, according to the govt at least.
Vitamin a Despite the indisputable fact that the potato is one hundred % natural, fat and cholesterol-free and packed full of vitamins and minerals, the Dept of Health ( DoH ) hasn't included it in the 'five a day ' factors since it launched its healthy-eating campaign in March 2003. In fact , it doesn't even class the potato as a vegetable in any way.
'Potatoes are botanically classified as a vegetable, but they're classified nutritionally as a starchy food, ' claims a DoH spokesperson. 'This is actually because when eaten as an element of a meal, they are generally used in place of other starchy carbs, for example bread, pasta or rice.
Vitamin A. It may protect surfaces in the eye against oxidative damage and is believed to have a role in the fixing of cells that have been injured. Foods with Vitamin An are liver, dairy foods and eggs.
Vitamin C. It is present in high concentrations in the tissues of the eye. Inadequacies could lead to many eye Problems.
Foods high in Vitamin C are kalamansi, blackcurrants, strawberries and citrus fruits.
*Zinc. It is present in several tissues in the eye, where it is assumed to play a protecting role against age-related wear.
Eggs, seafood, meat, nuts and legumes all are high in zinc. Potatoes in Britain, everyone eats 207lb of this flexible vegetable every year and surveys suggest two-thirds of us believe - in the case of the jacket spud at least - that it qualifies as one of our suggested 'five portions of fruit and veg a day '. However amazingly, it doesn't, according to the govt at least.
Vitamin a Despite the indisputable fact that the potato is one hundred % natural, fat and cholesterol-free and packed full of vitamins and minerals, the Dept of Health ( DoH ) hasn't included it in the 'five a day ' factors since it launched its healthy-eating campaign in March 2003. In fact , it doesn't even class the potato as a vegetable in any way.
'Potatoes are botanically classified as a vegetable, but they're classified nutritionally as a starchy food, ' claims a DoH spokesperson. 'This is actually because when eaten as an element of a meal, they are generally used in place of other starchy carbs, for example bread, pasta or rice.