Difference between Vitamins and Minerals
No. |
Vitamins |
Minerals |
1. |
An organic substance which are produced by plants or animals are known as vitamins. | An inorganic substance which basically obtained from soil and water is known as Minerals. |
2. | Vitamins contain carbon chemicals and obtained from plants or animals. |
Mineral are inorganic and contains non-carbon chemicals and obtained from soil and rock. |
3. |
Vitamins are easy to destroy. While cooking heat and chemicals agents can destroy vitamins. | To the heat, sunlight or chemical reactions, minerals are indestructible. |
4. | All the vitamins are essential for the body because it help body in proper functioning. |
All the mineral are generally not essential or required for nutrition. |
5. |
Water soluble vitamins and fat soluble vitamins are the two types of vitamins. | Major minerals and trace minerals are the two types of minerals. |
6. | Vitamins are useful in the growth of body and new cells. Vitamins also do regulate body functions and helps to prevent specific disease. |
Mineral are helpful in building cells, control chemical reactions in the cells. They helps muscles to contract and carries oxygen to the body cells. Minerals keeps heart beating. |
7. |
Water soluble vitamins are vitamin B and vitamin C. Fat soluble vitamins are Vitamin A, Vitamin D, Vitamin E and Vitamin K. |
Major minerals are Calcium, potassium, chloride, sodium, magnesium, sulphur and phosphorus. Trace minerals are Iron, Zinc, Copper, chromium, iodide, fluoride and selenium. |