Vitamins and Minerals
Across
- 1. When you injure yourself your body needs vitamin K to help your blood to do this?
- 3. this is the chemical name for vitamin B1
- 5. Iron is needed to make this in red blood cells?
- 6. what is the amount of vitamins needed by our bodies every day?
- 9. Vitamins promote health and prevent this?
- 10. Chemical substances that are naturally found in a wide range of unprocessed plant and animal foods are called?
- 11. In adults if you are deficient in vitamin D bones may start to weaken and break easily - this is called?
- 12. Vitamin A keeps your skin?
Down
- 1. this is the chemical name for B12 and it does not occur naturally in plant foods
- 2. You would find this in whole and semi-skimmed milk, cheddar cheese, boiled eggs and liver?
- 4. Our bodies are exposed to lots of different chemicals from air, water, food and this?
- 7. If we are not getting enough vitamins this is called?
- 8. Free radicals can cause damage to what in our bodies?