Vitamin

🍃VITAMINS 🍑 

DISCOVERY

´Vitamins are organic molecules that are essential for normal health and growth. They are required in trace amounts and must be obtained from the diet because they are not synthesized in the body. Before vitamins were discovered, it was known that lime juice prevented the disease scurvy in sailors and that cod liver oil could prevent rickets. In 1912, scientists found that, in addition to carbohydrates, fats, and proteins, certain other factors called vitamins must be obtained from the diet.

´Introduction to Vitamins. Polish Chemist Casimir Funck coined the term vitamin in 1910 after isolating from rice a substance curing the disorder beriberi. He called the substance 'vital amine' which then became vitamin.

´Human body can not synthesize vitamin except Vit-D, K and β-complex.

CLASSIFICATION OF VITAMINS 

´Vitamins are classified into two basic categories based upon their properties.

´Water-soluble Vitamins

´Fat-Soluble Vitamins