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[–] dawcas@scribe.disroot.org 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Isn't vit A the one we produce from carotenes? So technically we don't need to ingest the vitamin itself if we eat enough of the pro-vitamin? Am I confusing it with other vitamin?

[–] ThirdConsul@lemmy.ml 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Carotene is 10% absorption rate from my example (IIRC 30% from juice), but you still need to dissolve it in fat to get vitamin A.

[–] dawcas@scribe.disroot.org 1 points 10 hours ago