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Folic acid
Folic acid is part of the group of the water-soluble vitamins. It was for the first time from spinach leaves won, the Latin name therefore also comes folium = sheet.
Folic acid is a collective name for these more than 100 different substances of the group of vitamin B, one also mentions them to folate. This vitamin is produced in the intestine flora or taken about the nutrition. One finds monoglutamate mainly in animal products like liver, fish or soybeans happen meat, polyglutamate in vegetable products in sheet vegetable like spinach, salad, wheat shoot, in tomatoes, potatoes, fruit and whole grain flour products mostly, however, too.
Folic acid plays an important role in the metabolism in the blood corpuscle and mucosa formation and indispensable for the embryonic development. Folic acid deficiency can depressions, lack of concentration, sensitiveness, mucosa damages, heart circulation illnesses like stroke or arteriosclerosis. Many need folic acid particularly, unborn children otherwise it can come to malformations.
Daily requirement is, with pregnant women 0.6 approx. 0.4 mg.
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