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Benefits. 1  Sources. 2  Good sources of vitamin A are milk, eggs, liver, fortified cereals, darkly colored orange or green vegetables (such as carrots, sweet potatoes, pumpkin, and kale), and orange fruits such as cantaloupe, apricots, peaches, papayas, and mangos. Teen guys need 900 micrograms of vitamin A each day.
There are two types of vitamin A, one of which comes primarily from animal products (retinol), and one of which comes primarily from plant-based foods (beta-carotene). While both types are important, you don't have to rely only on carrots to get your fill. Here are some foods that actually have more vitamin A per serving than a half-cup of raw carrots, which comes in at 10,692 international units (IU) of retinol and 0.534 milligrams of beta-carotene. iStock/Thinkstock.