Industrial Application of Vitamins (I)
The vitamin industry is advancing rapidly due to medical discoveries about the importance of vitamins, including some dare to say that vitamin supplements are the main weapon of medicine to maintain optimal health and prevent chronic diseases. Because this has been giving a “vitamin fever”, despite numerous research projects can take decades to prove the claims that have been made.
Much of this fever came on the obsessive campaigns on how to eat to not harm the health and also scientific claims about the potential of certain vitamins.
The consumption of dietary supplements has increased considerably and with them the industrial competition to produce greater amounts to meet demand. Continue reading
Daily Dose of Vitamins (I)
Vitamins are a heterogeneous group of substances involved in the regulation of different metabolic reactions, are essential compounds for our body and must be provided daily in the diet because our bodies can not synthesize (or does so in insufficient quantities).
Its primary function is “participate” in the control of lipid metabolism, protein, carbohydrate and mineral. That is, the vitamins do not provide energy directly, what they do is to help convert food into energy diet, which is why we usually use them when we feel fatigued, tired and with little strength.
Classification of vitamins depends on its solubility
Water-soluble vitamins: group B and C.
To be soluble in water, can be passed to the wash water or cooking food, so we do not provide the same amount contained initially. Continue reading