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Chewing Gum May Be Effective for Delivering Vitamins

October 10, 2018

New study results validate the concept of gum as an effective delivery system for at least some vitamins

Most Popular Vitamin and Mineral Supplements Provide No Health Benefit

May 29, 2018

The most common vitamin and mineral supplements have no consistent benefit for the prevention of cardiovascular disease, hear...

Preventing Vitamin A Deficiency in Africa with Sweet Potato-Enriched Bread

May 1, 2018

Scientists evaluate starch digestibility, nutrient availability

Want to Remember Your Dreams? Try Taking Vitamin B6

April 27, 2018

Recent study results show that taking vitamin B6 improved people's ability to recall dreams compared to a placebo

Vitamin D Deficiency Linked to Greater Risk of Diabetes

April 23, 2018

For a recent study, researchers identified the minimum healthy level of 25-hydroxyvitamin D in blood plasma to be 30 nanogram...

Pregnant Women Deficient in Vitamin D May Give Birth to Obese Children

February 15, 2018

Taking vitamin D supplements during pregnancy may help to stem childhood obesity

Can Vitamins and Dietary Supplements Benefit Patients with Mitochondrial Disease?

January 12, 2018

CHOP researchers co-author expert review of nutritional interventions

After Cooking, Biofortified Corn and Eggs Retain Vital Nutrient Needed to Prevent Blindness

November 17, 2017

Vitamin A deficiency is a common problem in Africa and Southeast Asia, causing an estimated 250,000 to 500,000 children to be...

Vitamin E Genes Identified in Maize May Help Biofortify Crops

November 9, 2017

Scienists combined different types of genetic association analyses to identify 14 genes across the genome that were involved ...

Neutrons Observe Vitamin B6-Dependent Enzyme Activity Useful for Drug Development

October 17, 2017

The team used neutron crystallography to study the location of hydrogen atoms in aspartate aminotransferase, or AAT, an enzym...

Researchers Develop Multi-Nutrient Rice That Aims to Protect against Malnutrition

August 9, 2017

Until now, combining several micronutrients into one rice plant was a dream that had not been realized

Scientists Develop Golden Bananas High in Pro-Vitamin A

July 10, 2017

World-first QUT research that has produced a golden-orange fleshed banana, rich in pro-vitamin A, has been published in the p...

Dairy Products a Good Dietary Source of Some Types of Vitamin K

June 2, 2017

New study adds to knowledge about natural forms of vitamin K in dietary sources, their appreciable presence in commonly consu...

New Study Suggests That Vitamin D Decreases Risk of Cancer

March 30, 2017

In the study, women who were given vitamin D3 and calcium supplements had 30 percent lower risk of cancer

B Vitamins Reduce Schizophrenia Symptoms, Study Finds

February 16, 2017

"This could be an important advance, given that new treatments for this condition are so desperately needed," lead author say...

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