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Who among the following discovered vitamins?

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Who among the following discovered vitamins?


Anti von Leeuwenhack
Casimir Funk
Robert Brown
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  • The vitamin discovered by Casimir Funk in 1912.
  • Vitamins areorganic compoundsthat are required in small amounts in our diet but their deficiency causes specific diseases.
  • Most of the vitamins cannot be synthesized in our bodybut plants can synthesize almost all of them, so they are considered as essential food factors.
Fat soluble Vitamins:
  • Vitamins which are soluble in fat and oils but insoluble in water are kept in this group. These are vitamins A, D, E and K. They are stored in liver and adipose (fat storing) tissues.
Water soluble Vitamins:
  • Bgroup vitamins and vitamin Care soluble in water so they are grouped together.
  • Water soluble vitamins must be supplied regularly in diet because they are readily excreted in urine and cannot be stored (except vitamin B12) in our body.
DEFICIENCY DISEASES:
  1. Vitamin A——— Night blindness
  2. Vitamin B1———Beriberi
  3. Vitamin B2——- Ariboflavinosis
  4. Vitamin B3 ——-Pellagra
  5. Vitamin B5——-Paresthesia
  6. Vitamin B6 ——-Anemia
  7. Vitamin B7 —— Dermatitis, enteritis
  8. Vitamin B9 & Vitamin B12 —- Megaloblastic anemia
  9. Vitamin C—— Scurvy, Swelling of Gums
  10. Vitamin D—— Rickets & Osteomalacia
  11. Vitamin E —— Less Fertility
  12. Vitamin K—— Non-Clotting of Blood.

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