B vitamins are a class of water-soluble vitamins that play important roles in cell metabolism and synthesis of red blood cells. They are a chemically diverse...
43 KB (2,802 words) - 08:18, 15 November 2024
Vitamin B12, also known as cobalamin, is a water-soluble vitamin involved in metabolism. It is one of eight B vitamins. It is required by animals, which...
113 KB (12,360 words) - 03:17, 16 December 2024
Vitamin B6 is one of the B vitamins, and is an essential nutrient for humans. The term essential nutrient refers to a group of six chemically similar...
62 KB (7,066 words) - 04:18, 30 November 2024
Vitamin B12 deficiency, also known as cobalamin deficiency, is the medical condition in which the blood and tissue have a lower than normal level of vitamin...
117 KB (12,927 words) - 11:25, 10 December 2024
(thiamine) Vitamin B2 (riboflavin) Vitamin B3 (niacin) Vitamin B5 (pantothenic acid) Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine) Vitamin B7 (biotin) Vitamin B9 (folic acid...
68 KB (6,397 words) - 21:53, 2 November 2024
Folate (redirect from Vitamin B-9)
Folate, also known as vitamin B9 and folacin, is one of the B vitamins. Manufactured folic acid, which is converted into folate by the body, is used as...
106 KB (11,313 words) - 20:21, 15 December 2024
Riboflavin (redirect from Vitamin B-2)
Riboflavin, also known as vitamin B2, is a vitamin found in food and sold as a dietary supplement. It is essential to the formation of two major coenzymes...
56 KB (5,564 words) - 16:09, 11 September 2024
Biotin (redirect from Vitamin B-7)
Biotin (also known as vitamin B7 or vitamin H) is one of the B vitamins. It is involved in a wide range of metabolic processes, both in humans and in...
48 KB (5,181 words) - 01:08, 5 December 2024
within this group are vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol) and vitamin D2 (ergocalciferol). Unlike the other twelve vitamins, vitamin D is only conditionally...
141 KB (15,745 words) - 04:09, 24 December 2024
Vitamin B3, colloquially referred to as niacin, is a vitamin family that includes three forms, or vitamers: niacin (nicotinic acid), nicotinamide (niacinamide)...
44 KB (3,927 words) - 22:48, 25 December 2024
ultraviolet B rays (UVB). Vitamin D deficiency can also be caused by inadequate nutritional intake of vitamin D; disorders that limit vitamin D absorption;...
70 KB (8,065 words) - 01:07, 26 November 2024
Pantothenic acid (redirect from Vitamin B-5)
Pantothenic acid (vitamin B5) is a B vitamin and an essential nutrient. All animals need pantothenic acid in order to synthesize coenzyme A (CoA), which...
32 KB (3,267 words) - 03:33, 10 November 2024
Vitamin A is a fat-soluble vitamin that is an essential nutrient. The term "vitamin A" encompasses a group of chemically related organic compounds that...
112 KB (12,687 words) - 15:39, 22 December 2024
Nicotinamide (redirect from Vitamin PP)
use during pregnancy. Nicotinamide is in the vitamin B family of medications, specifically the vitamin B3 complex. It is an amide of nicotinic acid....
29 KB (2,443 words) - 19:24, 13 December 2024
Nutrition and cognition (section B vitamins)
and biotin. B vitamins are not synthesized in the body, and thus need to be obtained from food. B-complex vitamins are water-soluble vitamins, which means...
28 KB (3,091 words) - 12:12, 2 November 2024
Vitamin K is a family of structurally similar, fat-soluble vitamers found in foods and marketed as dietary supplements. The human body requires vitamin K...
69 KB (7,757 words) - 14:42, 24 September 2024
Cyanocobalamin (category B vitamins)
Cyanocobalamin is a form of vitamin B 12 used to treat and prevent vitamin B 12 deficiency except in the presence of cyanide toxicity. The deficiency may...
30 KB (2,663 words) - 21:59, 11 November 2024
Vitamin deficiency is the condition of a long-term lack of a vitamin. When caused by not enough vitamin intake it is classified as a primary deficiency...
49 KB (3,959 words) - 23:35, 27 October 2024
Vitamin C (also known as ascorbic acid and ascorbate) is a water-soluble vitamin found in citrus and other fruits, berries and vegetables. It is also a...
146 KB (15,231 words) - 22:14, 25 December 2024
Thiamine (redirect from Vitamin B-1)
Thiamine, also known as thiamin and vitamin B1, is a vitamin, an essential micronutrient for humans and animals. It is found in food and commercially synthesized...
63 KB (6,235 words) - 08:54, 22 December 2024
Berocca is a brand of effervescent drink and vitamin tablets containing B vitamins and vitamin C, manufactured by Bayer.[citation needed] Berocca was...
3 KB (348 words) - 07:21, 23 December 2024
Vitamin K2 or menaquinone (MK) (/ˌmɛnəˈkwɪnoʊn/) is one of three types of vitamin K, the other two being vitamin K1 (phylloquinone) and K3 (menadione)...
31 KB (3,648 words) - 09:10, 12 November 2024
is low FODMAP, vegan, kosher, and halal. It is known for being high in B vitamins. Following the death of Fred Walker in 1935, the Vegemite brand came under...
48 KB (4,287 words) - 05:37, 13 December 2024
Metanx (category B vitamins)
Metafolin, a calcium salt of vitamin B9), methylcobalamin (vitamin B12) and pyridoxal 5'-phosphate (vitamin B6). It is a vitamin B supplement. Metanx is indicated...
3 KB (150 words) - 05:04, 2 March 2023
Hydroxocobalamin (category B vitamins)
known as vitamin B12a and hydroxycobalamin, is a vitamin found in food and used as a dietary supplement. As a supplement it is used to treat vitamin B12 deficiency...
21 KB (2,021 words) - 01:38, 28 August 2024
Pyridoxine (category B vitamins)
safe during pregnancy and breastfeeding. Pyridoxine is in the vitamin B family of vitamins. It is required by the body to metabolise amino acids, carbohydrates...
13 KB (957 words) - 22:51, 26 September 2024
including dietary fiber, 2% protein, a rich source of vitamin K, and a moderate source of B vitamins and dietary minerals. The sorbitol content of dietary...
7 KB (797 words) - 10:42, 22 May 2024
"iron-poor tired blood". Geritol was introduced as an alcohol-based, iron and B vitamin tonic by Pharmaceuticals, Inc., in August 1950 and primarily marketed...
11 KB (1,206 words) - 22:50, 2 November 2024
The vitamin D receptor (VDR also known as the calcitriol receptor) is a member of the nuclear receptor family of transcription factors. Calcitriol (the...
22 KB (2,646 words) - 05:40, 13 July 2024
Cat cognitive support diets (section Vitamin B)
the B vitamins have similar functions in analogous mammalian brains. It has been found that cats fed supporting nutrients, including B vitamins, saw...
34 KB (4,521 words) - 10:50, 19 September 2024