A cup of sliced avocado can give you up to 50 micrograms of vitamin K. One-half cup of stewed prunes nets you about 32 micrograms. Blueberries (14 microgram/half-cup) and grapes (11 micrograms/half-cup) and apples (up to 5 micrograms for one small apple) have lower amounts but are easy to add to a meal on the go.
What is high in vitamin K? The most common foods with high vitamin K are green leafy vegetables such as kale, collard greens, broccoli, spinach, cabbage, and lettuce.
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.
Apples include vitamin K as well. This vitamin helps to make proteins, which strengthens your bones and encourages normal blood clotting.
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.
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.
Avoid or drink only small amounts of these when taking warfarin: Cranberry juice. Grapefruit juice. Alcohol.
Abnormal clotting is not related to excessive vitamin K intake, and there is no known toxicity associated with vitamin K1 or vitamin K2 (see Toxicity). Some oral anticoagulants, such as warfarin (Jantoven, formerly known as Coumadin), inhibit coagulation by antagonizing the action of vitamin K.
Avocados: Avocados are high in vitamin K, although the amount varies from avocado to avocado. Vitamin K content in guacamole can varies even more.
Carrots have calcium and vitamin K, both of which are important for bone health.
An egg yolk can contain between 67 and 192 micrograms of vitamin K2. This amount depends on what the hen eats, however. Most chicken feed today is fortified with vitamin K, and this content passes onto the egg. But chickens fed corn or soy-based diets are more at risk of vitamin K deficiencies.
Kiwi, which has delicate flesh and small, edible seeds, is also high in vitamin K. Each cup provides about 73 mcg, which is 60% of the daily value. Other fruits high in vitamin K include avocado, pumpkin, pomegranate, blueberries, and blackberries.
Reduced fat or fat free dairy products (Greek yogurt, yogurt, cottage cheese and cheddar cheese) contained 8–22% of the vitamin K found in full fat products.
A tablespoon of olive oil contains about 10 percent of the daily dose of vitamin K recommended for an adult. Extra virgin olive oil is traditionally used in the Mediterranean cuisine and is one of the reasons the diet promotes such good health and longevity.
Blood clotting
Cucumber is relatively high in vitamin K. Eating too much cucumber could affect how a person's blood clots.
Grapes are a good source of vitamin K. Vitamin K helps clot your blood. Vitamin K deficiency puts you at risk of hemorrhaging. It may also increase your risk of osteoporosis, although more studies are needed.