Facts about Vitamin K

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Vitamin K is one of the fat-soluble vitamins. It … vitamin K, blood takes a long time to clot. This … you take an anticoagulant, keep your vitamin K …

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FCS8666
1. This document is FCS8666, one of a series of the Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences, Florida Cooperative Extension
Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. First published: June 2001. Revised: April 2006. Please visit the EDIS
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2. R. Elaine Turner, PhD, RD, associate professor, Food Science and Human Nutrition Department, Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of
Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, 32611.
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Facts about Vitamin K1
R. Elaine Turner2
Why do we need vitamin K?
Vitamin K is one of the fat-soluble vitamins. It
helps the body make proteins that are needed
for normal blood clotting. Vitamin K also…