Vitamins are readily available and sold in many different formulations and a wide variety of
retail outlets. The food industry occasionally supplements foods with vitamins. Vitamins can …

The discovery of vitamins in the early 1900s, their later chemical characterization and the
clarification of pivotal metabolic functions are sequential aspects of a brilliant chapter in the …

With the explosion of information about the role of minerals and in particular trace minerals
in human nutrition, it is becoming increasingly evident that we need to be concerned with not …

This book provides up-to-date knowledge on the role of water and fat soluble vitamins in the
prevention of human diseases. The vitamins are essential food constituents with magnificent …

Insightful, objective, and evidence-based, this overview of the most commonly used
supplements dispels misinformation and provides facts from a qualified physician's point of …

In recent years, there has been a reduction in caloric intake in populations with decreased
energy demands. This has place a greater emphasis on the bioavailability of nutrients in …

Abstract/Synopsis Bioavailability aims to describe the effect of a sequence of metabolic
events on nutrient utilization. The supply of nutrients to the human body not only depends on …

This state-of-the-art review aims to highlight the challenges in quantifying vitamin activity in
foods that contain several vitamers of a group, using as examples the fat-soluble vitamins A …

This review focuses on recent advances in our understanding of the mechanisms and
regulation of water-soluble vitamin (WSV) transport in the large intestine and pancreas, two …