Explain about the Importance of Vitamin E in Human Body?

Vitamin E is the generic term for tocopherols and tocopherols that have a Phenolic functional group on a chromane ring system with an isoprenoid side chain. Figure illustrates the isoprene unit for your reference. Isoprene, as you can see, is a branched chain unsaturated hydrocarbon of, five carbon atoms (C-C-C-C-C).  This carbon skeleton forms the basis of carotenoids, steroids and tocopherols. The tocopherols and tocopherols occur as homologues - a, P and y- that differ in the number or location of methanyl substituent in the chromanol.

Having looked at the structure of tocopherols and tocopherols let us study about the food sources of vitamin E.