Getting all the nutrients and vitamins your body needs can be difficult, and using supplements to fill in the gaps is a perfectly healthy and normal way to keep your body happy. However, it may do you even more good to try and add some extra food into your diet that is high in harder to obtain vitamins and nutrients to get it through your food instead.

Try taking a food-first approach with this guide to the top food sources -- avoiding processed foods -- for every vitamin and mineral. Because while supplements can help fill gaps, it's always best to get most of your vitamins and minerals through a nutritious and balanced diet. You'll notice that many overlap and -- who'd've known -- vegetables appear as a top source for almost every nutrient.

Vitamin A

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Vitamin A is a single vitamin, but two types are found in food. Preformed vitamin A, which your body can use immediately, is found in animal foods. Provitamin A is found in plant foods, and it's a precursor to the type of vitamin A your body can use. Beta-carotene is the most common example of provitamin A.

To avoid vitamin A deficiency with your diet, eat these foods high in vitamin A:

Eggs

Meat, especially organ meats such as liver

Fish

Fortified milk

Fortified cereals

Carrots, sweet potatoes, bell peppers, cantaloupe, squash, mangos and other red, yellow and orange plant foods

Dark, leafy greens such as kale, spinach, arugula

Broccoli

Vitamin B

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The B vitamins are a group of eight essential nutrients humans need to support health. They're all lumped into one class of vitamins because they have similar properties and are found in many of the same foods.

The eight B vitamins include:

Vitamin B1 (thiamine)

Vitamin B2 (riboflavin)

Vitamin B3 (niacin)

Vitamin B5 (pantothenic acid)

Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine)

Vitamin B7 (biotin)

Vitamin B9 (folate and folic acid)

Vitamin B12 (cyanocobalamin)

The best food sources of B vitamins are:

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