Recommended Daily Dietary Allowance of Vitamins
To avoid both deficiency and overdosage it is important to know how much is recommended daily amount of vitamins. However, each vitamin has different recommended daily allowance, while amount of allowance also greatly depends from age and gender. In compare with the adults children need lesser amount of vitamins and for that reason children are allowed to consume only vitamin supplements which are made for children.
- vitamin A: daily dietary allowance for adult men is 1, 000 micrograms and for women 800 micrograms
- vitamin B1: daily dietary allowance for adult men is 1,2 to 1,4 milligrams and for women 1 to 1,1 milligrams
- vitamin B2: daily dietary allowance for adult men is 1,4 to 1,7 milligrams and for women 1,2 to 1,3 milligrams
- vitamin B3: daily dietary allowance for adult men is 16 to 19 milligrams and for women 13 to 14 milligrams
- vitamin B5 or pantothetic acid: daily dietary allowance for adults is 5 milligrams
- vitamin B6: daily dietary allowance for adult men is 2 to 2,2 milligrams and 2 milligrams for women
- biotin: daily dietary allowance for adults is 100 to 200 micrograms
- vitamin B9: daily dietary allowance for adults in 400 micrograms
- vitamin B12: daily dietary allowance for adults is 2,5 to 3 micrograms
- vitamin C: daily dietary allowance for adults is 60 milligrams
- vitamin D: daily dietary allowance for adults is 5 to 10 micrograms
- vitamin E: daily dietary allowance for adult men is 10 milligrams and 8 milligrams for women
- vitamin K: daily dietary allowance for adults is 70 to 140 micrograms