What Is Vitamin A? What Does Vitamin A Do?
Vitamin A is a fat-soluble vitamin, also known as retinol because it produces pigments in the eye’s retina. The eye needs a specific metabolite – retinal – a light-absorbing substance that is crucial for scotopic vision (low-light vision)
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What Is Vitamin A? What Does Vitamin A Do?
March 17, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: because-it-produces, eye-needs, low-light-vision, nutrition, nutrition / diet, produces-pigments, retinol-because, scotopic-vision, skin, soft-tissue, specific-metabolite, the-eye, the-skin
