Vitamins Stocks List

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Date Stock Title
Jun 14 KO The fizz is gone: Atlanta's former Coca-Cola museum demolished for parking lot
Jun 14 KO Coca-Cola, Starbucks file to extend trademarks in Russia, newspaper reports
Jun 14 KO Ground broken on Coca-Cola UNITED’s new facility in Alabama
Jun 14 PG They Broke Up In 1989, But Now His Ex-Girlfriend Is Inheriting His $1 Million Retirement Account After Nearly 40 Years
Jun 14 KO Move Over Pepsi, There's Officially a New No. 2 Soda Behind Coca-Cola
Jun 13 PG Trump offers CEOs a cut to corporate taxes. Biden's team touts his support for global alliances
Jun 13 KO Redditors Are Buying These 8 Dividend Stocks For Early Retirement
Jun 13 KO Citi’s North America Focus List updated, Adds: Coca-Cola, Evergy, etc.
Jun 13 KO The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE:KO) Shares Could Be 22% Below Their Intrinsic Value Estimate
Jun 13 PG Tax cuts vs. 'direct investments': Trump and Biden make dueling pitches to business leaders
Jun 13 PG March Of Dimes Awards Scholarships to Exceptional Nursing Students Committed to Improving Health Outcomes for Mom and Baby
Jun 13 KO Coca-Cola Foundation helps plastic waste reduction in seven African islands
Jun 13 KO 1 Magnificent S&P 500 Dividend Stock Down 16% to Buy and Hold Forever
Jun 13 KO Citi updates highest conviction ideas list
Jun 12 SFM Sprouts Farmers (SFM) Stock Drops Despite Market Gains: Important Facts to Note
Jun 12 KO 3 Stocks That Could Make You A Dividend Millionaire
Jun 12 SFM Consumer Outlook 'Healthy' As Labor Demand Points To Wage Growth: Goldman Sachs
Jun 12 KO Consumer Outlook 'Healthy' As Labor Demand Points To Wage Growth: Goldman Sachs
Jun 12 KO 4 Dividend Stocks to Double Up on Right Now
Jun 12 PG The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights The Procter & Gamble, ServiceNow, Lockheed Martin and Steel Partners
Vitamins

A vitamin is an organic molecule (or related set of molecules) that is an essential micronutrient that an organism needs in small quantities for the proper functioning of its metabolism. Essential nutrients cannot be synthesized in the organism, either at all or not in sufficient quantities, and therefore must be obtained through the diet. Vitamin C can be synthesized by some species but not by others; it is not a vitamin in the first instance but is in the second. The term vitamin does not include the three other groups of essential nutrients: minerals, essential fatty acids, and essential amino acids. Most vitamins are not single molecules, but groups of related molecules called vitamers. For example, vitamin E consists of four tocopherols and four tocotrienols. The thirteen vitamins required by human metabolism are: vitamin A (retinols and carotenoids), vitamin B1 (thiamine), vitamin B2 (riboflavin), vitamin B3 (niacin), vitamin B5 (pantothenic acid), vitamin B6 (pyridoxine), vitamin B7 (biotin), vitamin B9 (folic acid or folate), vitamin B12 (cobalamins), vitamin C (ascorbic acid), vitamin D (calciferols), vitamin E (tocopherols and tocotrienols), and vitamin K (quinones).
Vitamins have diverse biochemical functions. Some forms of vitamin A function as regulators of cell and tissue growth and differentiation. The B complex vitamins function as enzyme cofactors (coenzymes) or the precursors for them. Vitamin D has a hormone-like function as a regulator of mineral metabolism for bones and other organs. Vitamins C and E function as antioxidants. Both deficient and excess intake of a vitamin can potentially cause clinically significant illness; although excess intake of water-soluble vitamins is less likely to do so.
Before 1935, the only source of vitamins was from food. If intake of vitamins was lacking, the result was vitamin deficiency and consequent deficiency diseases. Then, commercially produced tablets of yeast-extract vitamin B complex and semi-synthetic vitamin C became available. This was followed in the 1950s by the mass production and marketing of vitamin supplements, including multivitamins, to prevent vitamin deficiencies in the general population. Governments mandated addition of vitamins to staple foods such as flour or milk, referred to as food fortification, to prevent deficiencies. Recommendations for folic acid supplementation during pregnancy reduced risk of infant neural tube defects. Although reducing incidence of vitamin deficiencies clearly has benefits, supplementation is thought to be of little value for healthy people who are consuming a vitamin-adequate diet.The term vitamin is derived from the word vitamine, coined in 1912 by biochemist Casimir Funk, who isolated a complex of micronutrients essential to life, all of which he presumed to be amines. When this presumption was later determined not to be true, the "e" was dropped from the name. All vitamins were discovered (identified) between 1913 and 1948.

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