| Vitamin/Mineral | Primary Function | Recommended Daily Intake (RDI) |
| Vitamin A |
✓ Helps form and maintain healthy skin, eyes, teeth, gums, hair, mucous membranes and glands
✓ Important to immune function
✓ Necessary for night and color vision
✓ Important for normal growth in children
|
5,000 IU |
| Vitamin D |
✓ Necessary for calcium absorption
✓ Helps to maintain healthy bones in adults
✓ Helps the body maintain blood levels of phosphorus and calcium
✓ Necessary for strong bones and normal growth in children
✓ Helps prevent and cure rickets in children
|
400 IU |
| Vitamin E |
✓ Necessary for the formation of normal red blood cells, muscle and tissue
✓ Necessary for immune function
✓ Important for DNA maintenance
✓ Helps protect lipids and cells from free radical damage
|
30 IU |
| Vitamin K |
✓ Necessary for normal blood clotting
✓ Important for maintaining normal bone metabolism
|
80 mcg |
| Antioxidants
(Beta Carotene, Gingko Biloba, Lutein and Lycopene)
|
✓ Science suggests diets rich in antioxidants can help with the maintenance of memory, mental alertness, concentration, blood flow and cardiovascular health
|
N/A |
| Calcium |
✓ Helps build and maintain strong teeth and bones
✓ Aids in clotting of blood
✓ Functions in normal muscle contraction and helps nerves work normally
✓ Regulates heart beat
|
1,000 mg |
| Folic Acid |
✓ May reduce the risk of having a child with a birth defect of the brain or spinal cord in women who consume a diet with adequate folate
✓ Helps maintain healthy function of the intestinal tract
✓ Necessary for amino acid metabolism and the formation of nucleic acids that form DNA
✓ Necessary for normal growth and development
✓ Necessary for red blood cell formation
|
400 mcg |
| Iron |
✓ Essential part of hemoglobin
✓ Part of essential metabolic enzymes
|
18 mg |
| Phytosterols |
✓ Lowers bad (LDL) cholesterol by blocking cholesterol absorption
✓ There is significant scientific agreement that phytosterols help reduce cholesterol, and that such reductions may reduce the risk of heart disease
|
800 mg
(400 mg per serving of free phytosterols taken twice a day with meals)
|
| Selenium |
✓ Compliments vitamin E to help fight cell damage from oxidation
✓ Needed for proper immune system response
✓ Plays a role in many antioxidant enzymes
|
70 mcg |
