If you eat healthy and varied food, you have a greater chance of meeting your requirements for vitamins and minerals. Fruit and vegetables in particular are rich in minerals. In fact, vitamins and minerals are extremely important for your body. Vitamins keep the body and its organs working. You could say that they have the same effect as the chain on your bicycle.

There are 13 known vitamins, nearly all of which are named with a letter such as A, B, C, D, E. You need all types of vitamin, and you can meet your requirements by eating lots of different types of fruit and vegetable.

The body uses minerals to get the vitamins to work. They are a form of building stone in the body. The mineral calcium is the body’s most important mineral and is used, for example, to build your bones and teeth. So you cannot do without minerals.

Most people get their vitamin and mineral requirements by eating healthy and varied food. If you are older 10, you should eat 600 grams of fruit and vegetables every day. If you are younger than 10, you should eat 400 grams. You are free to eat more, however, provided that you also eat things other than vegetables such as meat, fish, pasta, rice, etc.