The term vitamine or vitamin was originally introduced by a Polish chemist named Funk. He believes that the substance antidote to the disease beriberi water-soluble amine was a very vital, and from the word vitamine term was born and which later became the vitamin. When this vitamin is known as a group of organic compounds that are not included in ...
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Vitamin D
Unlike other vitamins, vitamin D can be synthesized in the human body and animals in the form of vitamin D2. the rate of synthesis of vitamin D in the skin depends on the amount of sunlight received and the concentration of pigment in the skin. So the body is not deficient in vitamin D, it is advisable to always take ...
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a) Nature of Vitamin C The properties of vitamin C are: 」Vitamin C is a vitamin that is most easily damaged. 」Vitamin C is easily oxidized and the process is accelerated by heat, light, alkali, enzymes, oxidant, and catalyst by copper and iron. Vitamin C in the body is useful in the formation and maintenance of an adhesive substance which ...
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Vitamin K is also called the coagulation vitamin. Initially discovered as a compound that can prevent the occurrence of severe bleeding in chickens. Vitamin K encourages blood clotting normally. Vitamin K is important in blood clotting, because this vitamin affects the formation of prothrombin in the liver. If the prothrombin deficiency of this vitamin in the blood is reduced. Consequently, ...
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