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Learning and retaining the details of each water-soluble and fat-soluble vitamin is often a challenge for students, as they share a lot of similarities in properties and functions. Various brief case study scenarios related to fat-soluble and water-soluble vitamin deficiencies are presented here with associated questions.  These case studies are intended to be carried out in the undergraduate classroom after students learn about the vitamins.  The scenarios challenge students to apply their learned knowledge to discern some of the differences between the vitamins and to diagnose nutritional deficiencies in patients.