29/06/2022
Unlike the main components of food (fats, proteins and carbohydrates), vitamins do not burn in the body as fuel; instead, they perform their main role: they contribute to the most important chemical reactions that support life in our body.
That is why vitamins are defined as irreplaceable micro—components of food - irreplaceable, because the body cannot do without them, but at the same time is not able to synthesize them independently in sufficient quantities. And this means that we have to get them from external sources, and the prefix micro- says that the body needs them in really minimal quantities — as a rule, no more than 100 mg per day.
