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Article: The Form Counts: Water-Soluble Vitamins.
- Article from:
- Consumers' Research Magazine
- Article date:
- April 1, 2001
- Author:
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Nutrients can have many different forms. Some are biologically more active than others. It is necessary to know how the body uses the different forms.
Some forms are more bioavailable than others. Bioavailability is defined as "the proportion or the amount of an element in a nutrient medium that is potentially absorbable in a form that is metabolically active." Not all nutrients are absorbed totally in the body.
--Riboflavin (vitamin B2). Laboratory tests using U.S. Pharmacopeia standard stomach intestinal juice showed that pure synthetic riboflavin went into solution ten times faster than the same amount of riboflavin from yeast or liver. The sudden ...
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