Ray - Vitamin E - Liver

[montmorency]

Had never noticed this before:

http://raypeat.com/articles/articles/vitamin-e.shtml

Many nutrition charts no longer list liver as a good source of vitamin E, but a large portion of an animal’s vitamin E is in its liver. This bias in the dietetic literature can be traced to various sources, but a major influence was the campaign in the 1970s by the drug companies that had patented new forms of synthetic “vitamin A.” They had physicians and professors fabricate stories about the great toxicity of natural vitamin A, and placed the stories in national magazines, to clear the field for their supposedly non-toxic products, which have turned out to be disastrously toxic. The result is that many people have fearfully stopped eating liver, because of its vitamin A. The other vitamins in liver, including vitamin K, function very closely with vitamin E, and the stably stored forms of vitamin E are likely to be a good approximation for our needs.

That it contains vitamin A is well known, and K fairly well known, but I hadn't figured it as a source of vitamin E. Given that supplement forms of E can be problematic, it's good to know we can get it from liver.

 

[charlie]

 

[Luann]

[Old thread.]
This is awesome! Take it from experience, Vite K, E, and copper are hard to get on a low-fat diet. Liver really is the best [it just doesn't taste the best]. I chopped it up fine and cooked it with rice and spinach, not too shabby!