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Vitamin Ki Khoj Kisne Ki – Vitamins are very much needed for any human being to live. It is very difficult to imagine a healthy body without it. A healthy substance found in any diet is called a vitamin. Which works as energy by going to your body and our body which helps to run smoothly.

For your information, let us tell you that vitamin was first discovere by Hopkins in 1913. According to him, the body works well when the necessary vitamins are available.

What is Vitamin?

We eat food to maintain energy in our body. Therefore, good and nutritious food is very important for good health. Generally, whatever food we eat contains vitamins and minerals. The healthy growth that comes from a nutritious quality diet is called a vitamin. You can also say that it is a kind of chemical. There are many types of it which are obtain by eating different food.

Each vitamin has its own speciality which is for different parts of your body like different vitamins for eyes and different vitamins for skin. That’s why we should have a balanced diet which contains all kinds of vitamins and you remain the owner of a healthy body.

There can be more than one vitamin in a single food. Vitamin deficiency can lead to many diseases. For example, vitamin B1 is came from the thiamin chemical and vitamin C is made from ascorbic acid. All these are very important. Vitamins help a lot to keep our body healthy and functioning well. Along with this, it also protects you from many viral infections and diseases.

Who discovered Vitamins | Vitamin Ki Khoj Kisne Ki

Vitamins were first discovered by Hopkins in 1912. For your information, let us tell you that the word vitamin was first use in 1912 by expert Kasimir Funk. Because of this Funk was award the Nobel Prizes in 1929. Lunin Nikolai Ivanovich gave information about the vitamins present in the diet in 1881.

Dutch physician Christiaan Eijkmann was researching malnutrition-related diseases. During his revision, he came to know about the antineurotic vitamin i.e. thiamine, which means that thiamine i.e. vitamin B1 was first discovered in the world.

Discovery and scientific names of other vitamins

VitaminExplorerYear
AElmer v. McCullum and Marguerite Davis1912-1914
BElmer v. McCullum1915-1916
B1Casimir Funk 1912
B2D.T. Smith and E.G. Hendrik1926
B3 (नाइयासिन)Canrad Alvegum1937
B9 (फोलिक एसिड)Lucy Wills 1933
B6Paul Geogie1934
CC.A Hoist And T.Freich 1912
DD Edward Melanby1922
EHerbert Evans And Catherine Bishop1922
Handrik Dam 1929

All Types Of Vitamin

Tthere are 13 types of vitamins. But the main 7 of them are vitamins, of which there are other types. Here we have mainly mentioned the types of 7 vitamins.

Vitamin A, Vitamin B, Vitamin B2, Vitamin C, Vitamin D, Vitamin E, Vitamin K

Apart from this, there are many vitamins like B12, D3 and B6, all of them are very important for our body.

Vitamins and their deficiency diseases

VitaminsDeficiency Diseases
Aरतौंधी, संक्रमण का खतरा, जीरोफ्थैल्मिया, मोतियाबिंद, शुष्क त्वचा और काठिन्य
B1बेरी – बेरी 
B2स्किन का फटना, आँखों का लाल होना 
B3स्किन पर दाद  होना 
B5बालो का सफ़द होना , मंद्बुदी होना 
B6एनिमा और स्किन  रोग 
B7लकवा , बदन दर्द , बालो का गिरना 
B11एनीमिया, पेचिश रोग 
B12 एनीमिया, पांडुरंग रोग
स्कर्वी
Dरिकेट्स, ऑस्टियोमलेशिया
Eजन शक्ति का कम होना
Kखून का जमना 

FAQ – Who Discovered Vitamins

Who is father of vitamins?

Casimir Funk, who is considered the ‘father of vitamin therapy’.

What was the first vitamin discovered and named?

The first vitamin to be discovered was Vitamin A in 1913.

Who invented vitamin K?

Vitamin K was discovered in 1929 by the Danish scientist Henrik Dam and her colleagues.

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