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The vitamins : fundamental aspects in nutrition and health / Gerald F. Combs, James P. McClung. -- Sixth edition. -- Amsterdam : Elsevier, 2022. – (59.5176/C731/6th ed.) |
Contents
Preface to the Sixth Edition
Part I Perspectives on the vitamins in nutrition
1. What is a vitamin?
2. Discovery of the vitamins
3. General properties of vitamins
4. Vitamin deficiency
Part II The individual vitamins
5. Vitamin A
6. Vitamin D
7. Vitamin E
8. Vitamin K
9. Vitamin C
10. Thiamin
11. Riboflavin
12. Niacin
13. Vitamin B6
14. Biotin
15. Pantothenic acid
16. Folate
17. Vitamin B12
18. Quasi-vitamins
Part III Using current knowledge of the vitamins
19. Sources of the vitamins
20. Assessing vitamin status
21. Vitamin needs
22. Vitamin safety
Appendix A Current and Obsolete Designations of Vitamins and Vitamin-Like Factors (Designations in current use are bolded)
Appendix B Original reports used for case studies
Appendix C A core of current vitamin literature
Appendix D Vitamin contents of foods(units per 100 g edible portion)
Appendix E Vitamin contents of feedstuffs(units per kg)
Appendix F 20 Questions to examine vitamin knowledge
Index