Substance reference

Vitamin K2

Vitamins EFSANIH ODS / IOM-DRI (NASEM) 10 products in Stacky

What the European Food Safety Authority and the United States National Institutes of Health have published about vitamin K2 intake, and what the catalogue records. Reference figures and citations only.

Stacky is an organisational tool, not a medical device. It does not provide medical advice, and nothing on this page says what vitamin K2 does. Talk to a doctor or pharmacist before starting, stopping or changing what you take.

Published intake references

Each figure is one authority’s published value, with the kind of figure and the people it applies to as that authority stated them. Where the EU and the US differ, both are shown and neither is averaged or converted. Only a tolerable upper intake level sets a ceiling. A recommended or adequate intake is context, not a limit.

European Union — EFSA

Adequate intake 70 mcg adults 18+, both sexes. NOTE: this is EFSA's AI for TOTAL vitamin K, not for K2 - EFSA has set no separate DRV for menaquinones.
Applies to one chemical form only: EFSA's vitamin K AI is based on phylloquinone (vitamin K1) ONLY; no separate reference value exists for menaquinones (vitamin K2)
EFSA →
No upper limit established by this authority None established No EFSA UL established for vitamin K (in any form) - no adequate data to derive a UL (SCF, 2003). EFSA has set no UL specific to menaquinones (K2). EFSA →

United States — NIH ODS / IOM

Adequate intake 90 mcg adult females 19+. NOTE: this is the AI for TOTAL vitamin K, not for K2.
Applies to one chemical form only: IOM/NASEM vitamin K AI is based on phylloquinone (K1); no separate value for K2
NIH ODS / IOM-DRI (NASEM) →
Adequate intake 120 mcg adult males 19+. NOTE: this is the AI for TOTAL vitamin K, not for K2.
Applies to one chemical form only: IOM/NASEM vitamin K AI is based on phylloquinone (K1); no separate value for K2
NIH ODS / IOM-DRI (NASEM) →
No upper limit established by this authority None established No IOM/NASEM UL established for vitamin K - not determinable (ND). No UL specific to menaquinones (K2). NIH ODS / IOM-DRI (NASEM) →

“None established” means that authority examined vitamin K2 and set no figure. A substance for which Stacky holds no published reference has no row here, and no page.

How it is recorded

What the app records so it can schedule a dose. None of it is advice.

Food: the app records vitamin K2 as taken with food.

Recorded interactions

What a named source says about vitamin K2 taken alongside another substance: absorption and nutrient status only. Each row links to its source. A row without one is not published, and neither is one whose source description names a disease or clinical condition: 1 such row for Vitamin K2 stays in the app. None of these says whether a combination is good or bad.

RelationshipWhat the source saysSource
Documented relationship with Vitamin A Large doses of vitamin A have been found to antagonise vitamin K, apparently by interfering with vitamin K absorption.
Scope the source gave: large doses of vitamin A.
Linus Pauling Institute
Checked 6 Aug 2026
Documented relationship with Vitamin E Large doses of vitamin E antagonise vitamin K, apparently by inhibiting vitamin K-dependent carboxylase activity. In adults with normal coagulation status, 1,000 IU a day of vitamin E for 12 weeks decreased carboxylation of prothrombin, a vitamin K-dependent protein.
Scope the source gave: large doses of vitamin E; one study used 1,000 IU a day for 12 weeks.
Linus Pauling Institute
Checked 6 Aug 2026

Indexed studies

Stacky has 5 papers indexed against vitamin K2, and none of them is published here. A study reaches this page only if its own title names Vitamin K2 and does not name a disease or clinical condition. None of the 5 passes that rule. They remain in the app. How this list is built →

About this page

Stacky is a supplement tracking app. It renders what you take and what published sources say about it; it does not tell you what to take. Every figure on this page names the authority that published it and links to that authority’s own page.

Not on this page: a dose of our own, a grade, a verdict on whether vitamin K2 works, or any statement that it treats, prevents or improves a condition. How these pages are built →

Figures are read from the authorities’ published tables and can go out of date when those tables are revised. If one here is wrong, tell us at support@stacky-app.com and we will check it against the source.