Fat Soluble Vitamins: Vitamin A, D, E and K. They are generally consumed along with fat containing foods. Because they can store in body's fat and they need not be consumed everyday.

-	Health benefits	Deficiency	Best sources	Excess
Vitamin A	Antioxidant Essential for growth AND development. Maintains healthy vision, skin and mucous membranes	Early deficiency symptoms are night blindness (difficulty adapting to darkness) Excessive dryness of skin. Lack of mucous membrane secretion. Dryness of eyes due to malfunctioning of tear glands.	Carrots Spinach Sweet potato Milk Cheese Egg yolk Liver Fish Fish liver oil Paneer(cottage cheese)	Excess of vitamin A can interfere with growth, damage red blood corpuscles causes skin rash, headache and nausea
Vitamin D	Essential for formation of bones and teeth. Helps the body absorbs and uses Calcium.	In infancy and childhood deficiency of Vitamin D causes deformed bones characteristic of rickets	This is a unique vitamin - your body can manufacture it when you get sunlight on your skin. Egg yolk Fish oil Fortified milk and butter	Excess vitamin D can cause loss of appetite , weight loss, nausea headache Depression Deposits of calcium in kidneys
Vitamin E	Is an antioxidant and helps protect cells from damage. Important for health of red blood cells. Boost immune system.	Vitamin E deficiency is rare in humans. Premature, very low birth infants (birth weight less 1500 gms or 3 pounds 4 ounce) are risk of vitamin E deficiency	Vegetable oil Nuts Green leafy vegetables Whole grains Wheat germ	Although vitamin E is stored in the body- overdoses appear to have lower toxic effects than do overdoses of other fat soluble vitamins
Vitamin K	Essential for blood clotting	In new born babies result in hemorrhagic disease as well as pre operative bleeding and hematuria or muscle hematomas	Leafy vegetables Egg yolk Soya bean oil Liver cheese	Toxicity cannot easily happen with normal dietary intake but can happen if synthetic vitamin k3 is taken-can cause flushing and sweating. jaundice and anemia