Folic Acid

Description

Folic acid and folate are forms of vitamin B9 used for deficiency and to prevent pregnancy complications. Many foods contain folate or have folic acid added.

Since 1998, folic acid has been added to cold cereals, flour, breads, pasta, bakery items, cookies, and crackers, as required by federal law. Foods that are naturally high in folate include leafy vegetables, okra, asparagus, certain fruits, beans, yeast, mushrooms, animal liver and kidney, orange juice, and tomato juice.

Folic acid is also available as a supplement and is often used in combination with other B vitamins.

Folic acid is used for preventing and treating low blood levels of folate (folate deficiency) and high blood levels of homocysteine (hyperhomocysteinemia). People who are pregnant or might become pregnant take folic acid to prevent serious birth defects such as spina bifida.

Folic acid is also used for many other conditions including depression, stroke, decline in memory and thinking skills, and many others.

Function：

1. Folic acid can be used as a treatment of anti-tumour.
2. Folic acid show the good effects in the development of infant brain and nerve cells.
3.folic acid can be used as schizophrenia patients auxiliary agents, it has significant soothing effects.
4. Folic acid can also used to treat chronic atrophic gastritis, inhibit the bronchial squamous transformation and prevent coronary artery sclerosis, myocardial injury and myocardial infarction caused by homocysteine.

Application:

1.Applied in food field.
2.Applied in health product field.
3.Applied in pharmaceutical field.
4.Applied in cosmetics field.
5.Applied in beverage field.

Analysis:

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