muscle contraction and nerve excitability Sodium Principal positive ion in Most foods, interstitial fluid, table salt important in fluid balance, essential for conduction of nerve impulses sulfur Component of many protein, Meat, fish, essential for normal legumes, metabolic activity nuts trace Minerals cobalt Component of vitamin Meat, dairy B12, essential for products red blood cell production copper Component of many Lever, eggs, essential fish, for melanin and flour, hemoglobin syntheses beans Fluorine Component of bone and Some natural teeth waters Iodine Component of Seafood, hormones that iodized salt, stimulate metabolic Vegetables rate grown in iodine-rich soils Iron Component of Meat specially hemoglobin, liver, nuts, myoglobin, cytochrome egg yolk, and other enzymes legumes essential to oxygen transport and cellular respiration manganese Activates many Whole grain enzymes, essential cereal, egg for urea formation yolk, green vegetables zinc Component of enzymes, Shellfish, peptidases important meats, liver in wound healing and fertilization
muscle contraction and nerve excitability Sodium Principal positive ion in interstitial fluid, important in fluid balance, essential for conduction of nerve impulses Most foods, table salt sulfur Component of many protein, essential for normal metabolic activity Meat, fish, legumes, nuts trace Minerals cobalt Component of vitamin B12, essential for red blood cell production Meat, dairy products copper Component of many essential for melanin and hemoglobin syntheses Lever, eggs, fish, flour, beans Fluorine Component of bone and teeth Some natural waters Iodine Component of hormones that stimulate metabolic rate Seafood, iodized salt, Vegetables grown in iodine-rich soils Iron Component of hemoglobin, myoglobin, cytochrome and other enzymes essential to oxygen transport and cellular respiration Meat specially liver, nuts, egg yolk, legumes manganese Activates many enzymes, essential for urea formation Whole grain cereal, egg yolk, green vegetables zinc Component of enzymes, peptidases important in wound healing and fertilization Shellfish, meats, liver
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