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 Vitamin A, also called retinol, helps your eyes adjust to light changes when you come in from outside and also helps keep your eyes, skin and mucous membranes moist. Vitamin A mostly comes from animal foods, but some plant-based foods supply beta-carotene, which your body then converts into Vitamin A. It also has antioxidant properties that neutralize free radicals in the body that cause tissue and cellular damage.
Vitamin A comes from animal sources, such as eggs, meat, milk, cheese, cream, liver, kidney, cod, and halibut fish oil. Retinol is an active type of vitamin A. It is found in animal liver, whole milk, and some fortified foods.
Sources of beta-carotene are carrots, pumpkin, sweet potatoes, winter squashes, cantaloupe, pink grapefruit, apricots, broccoli, spinach, and most dark green, leafy vegetables. The more intense the color of a fruit or vegetable, the higher the beta-carotene content. These vegetable sources of beta-carotene are free of fat and cholesterol.
Benefits of Vitamin A:
• Antioxidant neutralizing free radicals thus prevents premature aging. Free radical can cause degenerative changes like arthritis, atherosclerosis, etc.
• Vitamin A may help in the prevention of cancer in organs and glands with epithelial tissues such as the mammary glands, skin and passages of the body.
• The lungs gut, bladder and reproductive organs (including prostate gland) are lined by epithelial tissues.
• Builds body resistance to prevent respiratory tract infections.
• Development and maintenance of healthy epithelium.
• Helps treat pimples, emphysema and hyperthyroidism.
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