Baskadia

❣ Vitamins: Chemical Name, Sources, Deficieny and Discovery

🔶1913
🔷Vitamin A (Retinol, retinal)
🔶Cod liver oil
🔷Night blindness,
Keratomalacia

🔶1910
🔷Vitamin B1 (Thiamine)
🔶Rice bran
🔷Beriberi, Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome

🔶1920
🔷Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin)
🔶Eggs
🔷Ariboflavinosis

🔶1936
🔷Vitamin B3 (Niacin,niacinamide)
🔶Liver
🔷Pellagra

🔶1931
🔷Vitamin B5 (Pantothenic acid)
🔶Liver
🔷Paresthesia

🔶1934
🔷Vitamin B6
(Pyridoxine,pyridoxamine, pyridoxal)
🔶Rice bran
🔷Anemia, peripheral neuropathy.

🔶1931
🔷Vitamin B7 (Biotin)
🔶Liver
🔷Dermatitis, enteritis

🔶1941
🔷Vitamin B9 (Foli acid, folinicacid)
🔶Liver
🔷Deficiency during pregnancy is associated with birth defects, such as neural tube defects

🔶1926
🔷Vitamin B12
(Cyanocobalamin,hydroxycobalamin,methylcobalamin)
🔶Liver
🔷Megaloblastic anemia

🔶1920
🔷Vitamin C (Ascorbic acid)
🔶Lemons
🔷Scurvy

🔶1920
🔷Vitamin D
🔶(Ergocalciferol,cholecalciferol)
🔷Rickets and Osteomalacia

🔶1922
🔷Vitamin E
🔶(Tocopherols,tocotrienols)
Wheat germ oil,Cosmetics and liverCod liver oil
🔷Sterility, Deficiency is very rare; mild hemolytic anemiain newborn infants

🔶1929
🔷Vitamin k (phylloquinone,menaquinones)        🔶Alfalfa
🔷Hemophilia, Bleeding diathesis