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Nutrients
| Type | Sources | Needed For | Deficiency Symptoms |
| Carbohydrate | The main source of energy | ||
| Fat | One source of energy and important in relation to fat soluble vitamins | ||
| Protein | Essential to growth and repair of muscle and other body tissues | ||
| Water | Essential to normal body function as a vehicle for carrying other nutrients. | ||
| Roughage | The fibrous indigestible portion of the diet essential to health of the digestive system |
Vitamins
| Vitamin | Sources | Needed For | Deficiency Symptoms |
| A Retinol | Found in dark green and yellow vegetables and yellow fruits, such as broccoli spinach, turnip greens, carrots, squash, sweet potatoes, pumpkin, cantaloupe, and apricots, and in animal sources such as liver, milk, butter, cheese, and whole eggs. | New cell growth, healthy skin, hair, and tissues, and vision in dim light. | |
| B1 Thiamine | |||
| B2 Riboflavin | |||
| B5 Pantothenic Acid | |||
| B9 Folic Acid | liver, yeast, dark green leafy vegetables, legumes, and some fruits. | Promotes normal digestion; essential for development of red blood cells. | |
| B6 Pyroxidine | |||
| B12 | |||
| C | Rats are able to synthesize their own Vitamin C | ||
| D | Cheese, whole eggs, liver, salmon | Promotes absorption and use of calcium and phosphate for healthy bones and teeth. | |
| E | |||
| H | |||
| K3 | |||
| Choline | |||
| Niacin |
Minerals
| Mineral | Sources | Needed For | Deficiency Symptoms |
| Calcium | Milk, cheese, eggs with the shell on, green leafy vegetables (not spinach), soya beans, tofu, nuts, bread and anything made with fortified flour, bones, and fish where you eat the bones, such as sardines and pilchards. | ||
| Chromium | Meat and whole grains. | ||
| Cobalt | Nuts, green leafy vegetables, cereals (such as oats) and fish. | ||
| Copper | Copper is found in seafood, nuts, legumes, green leafy vegetables. | Synthesis of hemoglobin, proper iron metabolism, and maintenance of blood vessels. Manufacture of keratin for fur and nails, manufacture of fur pigment. | 'Spectacles' or paler fur around the eyes, anaemia, fur loss. |
| Iodine | Seaweed, cow's milk, seafood. | ||
| Iron | Liver, meat, beans, nuts, dried fruit (such as dried apricots), whole grains, fortified breakfast cereals, soya and most dark green leafy vegetables (such as watercress and curly kale). | ||
| Magnesium | Green leafy vegetables and nuts, bread, fish, meat and dairy foods. | ||
| Manganese | |||
| Phosphorus | |||
| Selenium | Nuts, bread, fish, meat and eggs. | ||
| Zinc |
