Carrots are a great source of important vitamins and minerals. A half-cup can give you up to: 73% of your daily requirement of vitamin A. 9% of your daily vitamin K.
The most common foods with high vitamin K are green leafy vegetables such as kale, collard greens, broccoli, spinach, cabbage, and lettuce. Foods with vitamin K that could affect warfarin are listed on the next 2 pages.
2. Banana. This delicious fruit is packed with vitamin K and other essential nutrients that help with digestion and weight management. Vitamin K present in bananas is easily absorbed by the body and helps metabolise carbohydrates and fats, turning them into energy.
It is also a vitamin K-rich food. Did you know 1 cup of cauliflower contains about 19% of the daily recommended vitamin K intake? Add a bowl of cauliflower to your meals to get all the benefits mentioned above.
There are a variety of vegetables that contain lower amounts of vitamin K. These include: Tomatoes. Peppers.
One serving of tomatoes provides a good source of vitamin A, C, K and potassium.
Extra virgin olive oil also contains a good amount of vitamins E and K in each serving. Vitamin E is an essential nutrient that doubles as an antioxidant, while vitamin K plays a key role in bone health, blood clotting, heart health, and more ( 12 , 13 ).
A 100-gram serving also has more than 11 micrograms of vitamin K2, making it the best meat-based source of the vitamin. If you're not a fan of organ meats like liver, turn to chicken for your vitamin K2. With 10 micrograms per 100-gram serving, chicken has five to 10 times the vitamin K2 content of beef or pork.
Choose to eat either green, leafy salad or coleslaw at a given meal – not both. Make non-lettuce/non-greens-based salads, for example, carrot or fruit salad (see recipes below)
Foods You Can Eat on a Warfarin Diet
On the positive side, patients are able to consume many foods considered safe if they are taking any anticoagulants. These are the foods that are considered safe to consume: Meat, fish, and eggs. Milk, cheese, and yogurt.
All fish and meat, with the exception of liver, are low in vitamin K as are most grain products such as rice, couscous, pasta and bread.
With the exception of pine nuts and cashews, which contain 53.9 and 34.8 microg of phylloquinone per 100 g of nut, respectively, nuts are not important dietary sources of vitamin K. Similarly, most fruits are not important sources of vitamin K, with the exception of some berries, green fruits, and prunes.
They are an excellent source of vitamin K (one medium green onion provides 34% of adequate intake for women) as well as a good source of vitamin A, vitamin C, and folate.
Blueberries, as other foods rich in color, are a healthy source of vitamins including Vitamin K. While blueberries have more Vitamin K than some fruits, it is an amount that is considered moderate. As with any vitamin-rich food, consistency in intake is key.
Zucchini contains 5.3 micrograms of vitamin K in every cup of the raw, chopped vegetable, an amount that is about 6 percent of a woman's daily vitamin K needs and 4.4 percent of a man's requirement per day.
Cucumber is relatively high in vitamin K. Eating too much cucumber could affect how a person's blood clots. People who use warfarin (Coumadin) or similar blood-thinning drugs should not increase their intake of cucumber dramatically or suddenly without consulting a doctor.
Avocados: Avocados are high in vitamin K, although the amount varies from avocado to avocado. Vitamin K content in guacamole can varies even more.
Some fruits such as kiwi, blackberries, and blueberries are also rich in vitamin K.
While strawberries are not one of the best sources of vitamin K, eating this fruit will help you meet your recommended intake of vitamin K for the day. Each one-cup serving of sliced strawberries contains 3.7 micrograms of vitamin K.