Tony's Blog http://blog.vitonis.com A blog by Tony Vitonis. Sun, 22 May 2011 06:03:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 What are vitamins? http://blog.vitonis.com/2011/05/16/what-are-vitamins/ http://blog.vitonis.com/2011/05/16/what-are-vitamins/#comments Tue, 17 May 2011 03:02:19 +0000 Tony http://blog.vitonis.com/?p=16 Yes, indeed: What are vitamins? A good bit of investigation leaves me with the less-than-edifying notion that vitamins are collections of substances that do what vitamins do. For instance:

  • Vitamins are organic nutrients.*
  • They are (most usually) not single substances, but rather groups of compounds called vitamers.
  • Vitamers are classified by their activity (i.e., what they do), not by their chemical structure.
  • Etc.

Obviously, the whole thing needs to be fleshed out a bit. I’ll talk about some individual vitamins in the near future. Maybe that’ll help. Right?

* Others are protein, carbohydrates, and fat (the “macronutrients”, possibly to be talked about en masse later).

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