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What role does vitamin e have?
Antioxidant, promoting hydration, vitamin E (tocopherol)

-Function

Vitamin E fixes water on the skin surface, so it can improve the elasticity and flexibility of the skin and make the skin look softer. Helps to prevent skin aging and enhance the efficacy of vitamin A.

-Foods rich in vitamin E

Various vegetable oils, oil crops and margarine contain a lot of vitamin E. In order to meet the daily requirement of human body (12 mg), it is required to take 2 tablespoons of sunflower oil, vegetable oil, peanut oil or olive oil every day. Some butter, margarine or meat sauce used to spread bread slices also contain a lot of vitamin E.

Remember to decorate your fruit salad with dried fruits from time to time. Dried fruit is rich in vitamin E (100g almond contains 24 mg,100g hazelnut contains 25 mg ...). You can also decorate your white cheese, cakes and various sweet or salty dishes with dried fruit.

Vitamin e can be taken orally or externally. For example, lips are easy to dry and peel in autumn and winter. At this time, as long as the vitamin E capsule is punctured and the vitamin E solution inside is directly applied to the lips, the dried and peeled lips can be restored to their original state in one day.