Folic acid (English: folic acid, also known as vitamin B9 or Bc earliest known as vitamin M.) Is a water-soluble form of vitamin B9. The name comes from the Latin folate folium (which means leaf By Mitchell (H.K.Mitchell, 1941) and his colleagues first extracted and purified from spinach leaves come out, named as folic acid. Folic acid as an important carbon carrier in nucleotide synthesis, metabolism of many important physiological functions of homocysteine re methylation plays an important role. Therefore, folic acid has a particularly important role in the rapid cell division and growth processes (such as infant development, pregnancy) in. Folic acid can promote bone marrow immature cells mature into normal form of red blood cells, thus avoiding anemia.
Erica Watson at Cambridge University (Erica Watson) and his colleagues found that not only led to a lack of folic acid generation sick child, and can affect inter-generational, causing the same problem. Because folic acid for the formation of the neural tube has an important role, so pregnant women before pregnancy adequate intake of folic acid is important for the normal development of the fetus. Folic acid deficiency can affect fetal development of the nervous system during pregnancy. Studies have shown that supplements early enough in pregnancy and pregnancy Folic acid can reduce fetal neural tube defects and cleft lip birth rate. US National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, researchers in the new issue of "The New England Journal of Medicine," the report said, if pregnant women folic acid supplements can prevent babies with cleft lip, cleft palate, but the role does not seem to prevent significant
Folic acid extracted from the initial and name that you know, there are a lot of folate in leafy vegetables. Spinach, asparagus, turnips, cabbage, lettuce, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, beans, corn, lentils, peas, sunflower seeds and whole grains other leafy vegetables. Fruit including cantaloupe, honeydew melon, banana, raspberry, grapefruit, strawberries and orange juice, canned pineapple juice, tomato juice, and so on .... Animal foods such as animal liver, kidney, poultry and eggs, such as liver, chicken, beef, lamb, also rich in folic