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What is niacin?

What is niacin? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (biochemistry) A water-soluble vitamin, a component of vitamin B complex, found in meat, yeast, and dairy products; it is essential to metabolism.
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Bison meat contains many vitamins but is highest in vitamin B 12, vitamin B 6, and niacin content.
Hypoproteinemia and pellagra are caused when tryptophan is used for serotonin production instead of for protein and niacin synthesis.
One good source of several of these nutrients is brown rice which contains thiamin, vitamin B6, and niacin.
Maize meal and wheat flour will be fortified with vitamin A, riboflavin, niacin, pyridoxine, folic acid, iron and zinc.
The B vitamins consist of thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, pyridoxine, folic acid, pantothenic acid, biotin, and cobalamin.
Pellagra is a nutritional wasting disease attributable to a combined deficiency of tryptophan and niacin.

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