Important Vitamin K List

Vitamin K is an essential nutrient in blood clotting and help with the healthy function of vital organs like the heart and bones. Therefore, we strongly recommend that we achieve the recommended levels of / FEI DRI for this purpose.

Taking a portion of which serves as a vitamin-K-vegetables, you can have up to K, the recommended amount of vitamin DRI.

The recommended DRI for vitamin K is 120 micrograms / day for a 25-year-old adults. It isno known cases of poisoning regarding overdosage of vitamin K hence do not worry about over consuming.

However, always consume everything in moderation. Better to be safe than sorry and be the first reported case of vitamin K overdosage!

Vitamin K food list consists of mostly dark leafy vegetables. Some high levels of vegetables with vitamin K include

spinach 
collard greens 
broccoli  
turnips Green
Cabbage
Dressing for a salad with dark green vegetables
Asparagus
Salad
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Other sources of vitamin K-cows come from meat of herbivores, such as. They contain vitamin K they consume a diet dark leafy vegetables as part of their everyday life.

Usually the meat is a serving of vegetables rich in vitamin K and above, it is estimated that 2 or 3 times the required amount of DRI. But the vitamin K-vegetablelightly cooked to ensure the nutrients remain in the vegetables.

It is extremely rare for vitamin K deficiency to occur as vitamin k are needed in trace amounts and a single serving of green vegetables with vitamin k meets the required DRI level.

However, deficiency of vitamin K is an serious issue. Blood will not be able to clot which can causes  shock even from a small cut.

Individuals taking medications and those who have suffered from liver or intestine damage (surgeries) are at a much higher risk than others to suffer a vitamin K deficiency. Newborn infants falls into this category as well.

Hence, care must be given to ensure the above groups get their regular dosage of vitamin K.

Important

If you are taking medications for blood thinning such as warfarin, it is not recommended to eat the above vegetables in this vitamin k food list as they interfere with each other. It is highly recommended for you to check with your doctor for additional information.

Although vitamin K deficiency is rare, always ensure that you consume enough dark leafy vegetables to maintain the amount of vitamin K in your body.