Vitamin E – a scoping review for Nordic Nutrition Recommendations 2023

Essi Hantikainen; Ylva Trolle Lagerros

doi:10.29219/fnr.v67.10238

Essi Hantikainen Institute for Biomedicine, Eurac Research, Bolzano, Italy
Ylva Trolle Lagerros Division for Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Medicine (Solna), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

DOI: https://doi.org/10.29219/fnr.v67.10238

Keywords: vitamin E, tocopherol, antioxidants, recommendations

Abstract

Current evidence suggests that dietary vitamin E (as α-tocopherol) intake has a beneficial role in preventing certain chronic diseases. In contrast, there is no clear evidence for the benefit of α-tocopherol supplements in a generally healthy population. Deficiency symptoms are rare and mainly occur due to genetic or other factors affecting α-tocopherol absorption and/or metabolism, rather than a low α-tocopherol intake. No qualified systematic review was identified by the NNR2023 project for updating the dietary reference values (DRV).

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