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Vitamin Health: Vitamin B6

A member of the busy B vitamin family, vitamin B6, also named pyridoxine, carries out many vital functions in the body. Find out everything you need to know about this vitamin.

Folic Acid

Folic acid, or Vitamin B9, is a member of the water-soluble family of B vitamins and was apparently so-called because of the Latin word ‘folium’, meaning foliage.

Magnesium

Magnesium is the fourth most abundant mineral in the body and plays a very important role in numerous enzyme reactions.

Vitamin B3

Vitamin B3 is also called niacin. There are two forms of niacin – nicotinic acid andniacinamide.

Vitamin B6

Vitamin B6 is otherwise known as pyridoxine. In fact, pyridoxine is not just one vitamin but a group of water-soluble compounds.

Vitamin B12

Named cobalamin, because it is the only vitamin that contains an essential mineral, cobalt.