Nutrition · Module 8 · Water-soluble vitamins

Water-Soluble Vitamins Walkthrough

Watch vitamins travel from food to blood, leak into cooking water, switch on the enzymes that release energy, help build DNA, red blood cells, nerves and collagen, and see what happens when there is too little or too much. Each picture links the food, the body and the molecule or cell. Go at your own pace. Nothing here is graded.

Speed

Think of it like this

Quick check

Wrong answers are fine here. Read why, then try again.

Dr. Akash Garg · Nutrition Study Tools · Drawings are simplified and not to scale. For learning only, not personal medical or diet advice. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Use the left and right arrow keys to move between steps. Animations run much faster than real life so you can see each change; molecules and cells are drawn far larger than they are. Practise next in the Water-Soluble Vitamins Lab.