Vitamin K & A

Lyndzwah

I'm brand new to Cronometer and food tracking, and I am slightly confused from my research. I'm consuming on average 371% of the daily recommendation for Vitamin A and 171% for Vitamin K. Is this harmful to the body?

Marie_Eve_Cronometer

Hello @Lyndzwah ,

If you have any concerns about toxicity symptoms you should discuss it with your health care provider.

The vitamin A found in plants are in a form that we have to convert to active vitamin A. If we have enough vitamin A already, we will just convert less of the precursors, that's why plant-based sources of vitamin A do not contribute to the tolerable upper limit for vitamin A.

We also wrote an interesting blog a few years back about vitamin A and carrots : https://cronometer.com/blog/whats-up-with-vitamin-a/

Cheers,
Marie-Eve