Top 10 Real Food Sources of Vitamin B6: Superfoods for Healthy Skin

Top 10 Real Food Sources of Vitamin B6: Superfoods For Healthy Skin
By Kaitlyn Dreyling

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The Health Benefits of Vitamin B6
Eating right is important because it allows your body to function at its best.
Vitamin B6 helps your body metabolize proteins and red blood cells, while it
also helps boost your immune system, maintains your body's blood sugar and keep
skin looking youthful.

The Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA) is 1.3 mg for both men and women, and 1.7
mg for men over 50 and 1.5 mg for women over 50.
http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/infocenter/vitamins/vitaminB6/index.html#rda

Here are the top 10 food sources of Vitamin B6 according to the USDA’s
National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference.
http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/Data/SR21/nutrlist/sr21w415.pdf

Cereal
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and Vitamin B6 is just one of
the many reasons. Fortified cereals like Kellogg's All-Bran and General Mills'
Total are two of the many options with high amounts of Vitamin B6. Check out
your favorite brand for nutritional information.

Chickpeas
A cup of this Middle-Eastern legume has 1.13 mg of Vitamin B6.

Brown Rice
Like other whole grains, brown rice is generally much more nutrient-packed than
its bleached cousin. But even a cup of white rice has 0.84 mg of Vitamin B6.

Potatoes
Make breakfast even tastier with homemade hashed brown potatoes. One cup has
0.73 mg of Vitamin B6.

Chestnuts
These nuts are a great source of Vitamin B6 and are also full of fiber. One cup
of roasted chestnuts have 0.71 mg of Vitamin B6.

Buckwheat Flour
Buckwheat is an important ingredient to a gluten-free lifestyle and is also a
good source of dietary fiber and, of course, Vitamin B6. One cup of buckwheat
flour has 0.70 mg of the nutrient.