Vitamin K is made to the body through vegetable oils, dairy products, green leafy vegetables.

Vitamin K is a fat-soluble vitamin (ie soluble in fat, but insoluble in water), synthesized by the bacteria in the gut flora, and involved in the synthesis of blood clotting factors and fixing calcium by the bones.

There are two types of vitamin K: vitamin K1 (phylloquinone-from a synthesis plant) and vitamin K2 (ménaquinone-resulting from a bacterial synthesis), whose structures and actions are different.

• The vitamin K1, which is involved in clotting, is provided by food (cf. list of vitamin K foods here under). They are found especially in green vegetables (broccoli, cabbage, spinach, lettuce) and soybean oil.
• Concerning vitamin K2, wich is ensured by the bacteria in the gut flora, it participates in the ossification of the body. This vitamin is also present in the liver, milk, cheese, yogurt and different fish oils (tuna, sardines, salmon, even mackerel).

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