Recommended daily intake= 15 mg
- sunflower seed kernels, dried:
Contain: 33.2 mg
%DV: 166% - paprika
Contain: 29.8 mg
%DV: 149% - almonds [Includes USDA commodity food A256, A264]
Contain: 26.2 mg
%DV: 131% - curry powder
Contain: 22 mg
%DV: 110% - hazelnuts or filberts
Contain: 15 mg
% DV: 75% - sweet potato chips
Contain: 9.8 mg
%DV: 49% - Peanuts, all types, raw
Contain: 8.3 mg
%DV: 42% - cumin seed
Contain: 3.3 mg
%DV: 17% - Turnip greens, raw
Contain: 2.9 mg
%DV: 14% - Avocados, raw, Florida
Contain: 2.7 mg
%DV: 13%
Deficiency symptoms
- clumsiness of the hands and decreased visual acuity
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK1241/ - Walking difficulties
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3943241/ - Increase atherosclerosis and raising the rates of ischemic heart disease
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK519051/ - embryonic mortality
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28095320 - anxiety
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30618663 - impaired immune response and free radical-induced hemolytic anemias.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30559825
Function:
- antioxidant
- Anti- aging
- help keep the immune system strong against viruses and bacteria
- formation of red blood cells
- helps the body use vitamin K
- helps widen blood vessels and keep blood from clotting inside them
https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/002406.htm
Overdose: more then 1000 mg
https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/VitaminE-HealthProfessional/#h7
Excess: stored in the body
https://www.livescience.com/51543-vitamin-e.html
Type: fat soluble vitamin
https://www.livescience.com/51543-vitamin-e.html
Side effects of hypervitaminosis E:
- might increase the risk of bleeding in the brain
- increase the risk for birth defects
https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/002406.htm - May increase the mortality
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15537682?dopt=Abstract - increasing the risk of prostate cancer
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21990298?dopt=Abstract - fatigue, nausea, blurred vision
https://www.livescience.com/51543-vitamin-e.html - gonadal dysfunction
https://www.livescience.com/51543-vitamin-e.html