What it is
Vitamin A is a fat-soluble vitamin measured here as retinol activity equivalents (RAE) in micrograms (µg). Liver, eggs and dairy contain the ready-made form, and orange and green vegetables such as carrots and sweet potato contain carotenoids that count towards the same figure. This page answers what foods are high in vitamin A and which give the most vitamin A for each dollar. Beef liver has far more per 100 g than any other food, and the list below compares equal dollars, not serve sizes.
What foods are high in vitamin A?
Per 100 g, the highest values are in beef liver, carrot and sweet potato. By food group, Meat and poultry has the highest average, at 255 µg per 100 g.
- Per 100 g4,970 µgBeef liver
- Per 100 g835 µgCarrot
- Per 100 g709 µgSweet potato
Highest per 100 g of the 155 foods on this site.
Vitamin A per dollar
Each food's vitamin A per kg is divided by its price per kg in your location, so the list shows how much vitamin A $1 buys. For the bone-in cuts marked with *, I first multiply by the share that is meat. Foods with no price for your location are left out.
| Rank | Food | µg per $1 |
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Checking prices.
Approximate. Adjusted for the share of the cut that is meat rather than bone. See how I estimate this.
Notes and limits
8 of the 155 foods on this site have no vitamin A value in USDA FoodData Central, so they are left out of these lists. Values are per 100 g of each food as described in its USDA entry, such as raw or dry.