Calcium: Builds strong bones and teeth, promotes healthy nerve and muscle
function, helps blood clot, and helps the body convert food into energy.
Essential fatty acids (EFAs): Help build cells, regulate the nervous
system, strengthen the cardiovascular system, build immunity, and help the body
absorb nutrients. Necessary for healthy brain function and vision.
Iron: important for making hemoglobin, the oxygen-carrying red pigment
in blood, and myoglobin, a pigment that stores oxygen in muscles. Lack of iron
can cause anemia, which can result in fatigue, weakness, and
irritability.
Magnesium: Keeps bones strong and the heart rhythm steady, supports the
immune system, and helps maintain muscle and nerve function.
Potassium: Works with sodium to control the body's water
balance, which helps maintain blood pressure. Assists with muscle function and
heart rhythm and, in later years, may reduce the risk of kidney stones and
osteoporosis.
Vitamin A: Plays an important role in vision and bone growth; helps protect
the body from infections; promotes the health and growth of cells and tissues
in the body, including the hair, nails, and skin.
Vitamin C: Helps form and repair red blood cells, bones, and tissues; helps
keep your child's gums healthy and strengthens blood vessels, minimizing
bruising; assists with healing, boosts the immune system, and keeps infections
at bay. Also helps the body absorb iron from iron-rich foods.
Vitamin D: Helps the body absorb minerals like calcium and builds strong
teeth and bones. Essential for reaching growth potential and peak bone mass.
Also functions as a hormone with roles in immune system health, insulin
production, and regulation of cell growth.
Vitamin E: Limits the production of free radicals, which can damage cells.
Important for immunity, DNA repair, and other metabolic processes.
Zinc: Needed by more than 70 enzymes that aid digestion and
metabolism, and essential for growth.
