HTHSCI 3BB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Tryptophan, Neural Tube, Complete Protein
7 Mar 2018
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Ppl not eating meat should take a b12 supplement. Fortification: talks about adding nutrients into a food where it might not have been found. Enriched foods have been processed and nutrients have been taken away, enrichment brings it back. Not completely necessary if you have a good diet. Not regulated the same way that pharmaceuticals are. Dietary composition may affect how much a vitamin is available. Certain conditions (celiac, cf, etc. ) can cause malabsorption. The ability to metabolize the food we intake relies on these. Doesn"t matter the source, all foods need these vitamins to be metabolism. Realized there was more than one type of b vitamin. Occurs with alcoholism but often with alcoholism you can see a general deficit across all of the. Similar to thiamin bc they both help metabolize micronutrients. Vitamins have no calories (don"t supply any energy themselves) We can make niacin in the body if you have enough tryptophan.
