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Vitamins are organic molecules (or a set of closely related molecules called vitamers) that are essential to an organism in small quantities for proper metabolic function. These essential nutrients cannot be synthesized in the organism in sufficient quantities for survival, and therefore must be obtained through consumption. For example, vitamin C can be synthesized by some species but not by others; it is not considered a vitamin in the first instance but is in the second. Most vitamins are not single molecules, but groups of related molecules called vitamers. For example, there are eight vit
Vitamins are organic compounds that your body needs in small amounts to function properly, but cannot make on its own, so you must get them from food. Different organisms require different vitamins—for instance, while some animals can make their own vitamin C, humans cannot and must obtain it through diet.
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- Vitamin
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- A bottle of B-complex vitamin pills
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Nutrition · Open Food Facts
Typical values per 100 g · averaged across 5 products
- Energy
- 101 kcal
- Fat
- 2.3 g
- — of which saturates
- 0.9 g
- Carbohydrates
- 20 g
- — of which sugars
- 12.9 g
- Fibre
- 1.5 g
- Protein
- 5.8 g
- Salt
- 0.07 g
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Research
508,608 papers- Vitamin intake and glaucoma risk: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal francais d'ophtalmologie · 2022Han FF, Fu XXDOI: 10.1016/j.jfo.2021.10.010
- Intravenous vitamin C in critically ill adult patients with burns: An integrative review.ReviewNutrition (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.) · 2025Novoa J, Hardy G, Aramendi I et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.nut.2025.112728
- [THE VITAMIN FOR VITAMINS].ReviewClinica europea · 1963FEDERICI F
- The effects of surgery on plasma/serum vitamin C concentrations: a systematic review and meta-analysis.The British journal of nutrition · 2022Travica N, Ried K, Hudson I et al.DOI: 10.1017/S0007114520004353
- Vitamin-E deficiency.British medical journal · 1966
- Synergistic activity of vitamin-C and vitamin-E to ameliorate the efficacy of stored erythrocytes.Transfusion clinique et biologique : journal de la Societe francaise de transfusion sanguine · 2023Pallavi M, Rajashekaraiah VDOI: 10.1016/j.tracli.2022.09.002
- Vitamin and mineral supplement use in medically complex, community-living, older adults.Applied physiology, nutrition, and metabolism = Physiologie appliquee, nutrition et metabolisme · 2019Ford KL, Jorgenson DJ, Landry EJL et al.DOI: 10.1139/apnm-2018-0515
- [Vitamin K].Bulletin medical · 1945HAQUIN C
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25 sectionsContents
- List of vitamins
- History
- Etymology
- Understanding before science
- Scientific study breakthrough
- Nobel Prizes for vitamin research
- History of promotional marketing
- Classification
- Anti-vitamins
- Biochemical functions
- On fetal growth and childhood development
- On adult health maintenance
- Intake
- Sources
- Deficient intake
- Excess intake
- Effects of cooking
- Recommended levels
- Supplementation
- Governmental regulation
- Naming
- See also
- References
- Notes
- External links
Vitamins are organic molecules (or a set of closely related molecules called vitamers) that are essential to an organism in small quantities for proper metabolic function. These essential nutrients cannot be synthesized in the organism in sufficient quantities for survival, and therefore must be obtained through consumption. For example, vitamin C can be synthesized by some species but not by others; it is not considered a vitamin in the first instance but is in the second. Most vitamins are not single molecules, but groups of related molecules called vitamers. For example, there are eight vitamers of vitamin E: four tocopherols and four tocotrienols.
The term vitamin does not include the three other groups of essential nutrients: minerals, essential fatty acids, and essential amino acids.
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