What are the most common nutrient deficiencies found in people who regularly skip breakfast?

People who skip breakfast are found to be deficient in certain nutrients like iron and B vitamins, folate, vitamin A and vitamin D. Breakfast cereals provide these key nutrients and can be eaten with milk for additional protein, calcium and vitamin D. While nutrient deficiencies are found in those who skip breakfast, research shows that there is no risk to skipping breakfast as long as a healthy diet is maintained over the whole day.
 
Transcript: "What are the most common nutrient deficiencies found in people who regularly skip breakfast? This is a great question. We have a lot of data from NHANES, which is the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. And it's an ongoing research study that examines the health and nutrition of adults and children. So what they recently found in an evaluation of that data is that people who skip breakfast tend to be a little deficient in certain nutrients, particularly iron and B vitamins, including folate, also vitamin A and vitamin D. Folate is really important in children and women of childbearing years, as is iron. And breakfast cereals provide a lot of those nutrients through fortification. Breakfast cereals are fortified with B vitamins, iron, and those important key nutrients. It's often also eaten with milk, which provides vitamin D, additional protein, calcium, etc. So I'm going to link to that study, and you can take a look. But there is some evidence that nutrient deficiencies are found in people who skip breakfast, but there has also been evaluations of that NHANES data that show that breakfast skippers still have healthy diets and there's no risk to skipping breakfast. So it really depends what's eaten over the whole day, but this can be a trend. So check the link."
 Study: skipping breakfasts leads to clear nutrient gaps