BIOLOGY
VITAMINS
Question
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Vitamin B1
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Vitamin B2
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Vitamin B6
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Vitamin B12
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Detailed explanation-1: -Vitamin B6 (Pyridoxal) They are involved in many enzyme reactions of the amino acid metabolism and their main function is to transfer the amino group. They are all abundant in foods, especially in the liver, legumes, nuts, and bananas.
Detailed explanation-2: -Vitamin B6 is the master vitamin for processing amino acids-the building blocks of all proteins and some hormones. Vitamin B6 helps to make and take apart many amino acids and is also needed to make the hormones, serotonin, melatonin, and dopamine.
Detailed explanation-3: -The vitamin B-complex refers to all of the known essential water-soluble vitamins except for vitamin C. These include thiamine (vitamin B1), riboflavin (vitamin B2), niacin (vitamin B3), pantothenic acid (vitamin B5), pyridoxine (vitamin B6), biotin, folic acid and the cobalamins (vitamin B12).
Detailed explanation-4: -The richest sources of vitamin B6 include fish, beef liver and other organ meats, potatoes and other starchy vegetables, and fruit (other than citrus). In the United States, adults obtain most of their dietary vitamin B6 from fortified cereals, beef, poultry, starchy vegetables, and some non-citrus fruits [1, 3, 5].