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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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Mushrooms also contain B-complex vitamins, such as riboflavin, niacin, folate and pantothenic acid, not easily found in produce.
The B vitamins consist of thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, pyridoxine, folic acid, pantothenic acid, biotin, and cobalamin.
Dietary reference intakes for thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, vitamin B6, folate, vitamin B12, pantothenic acid, biotin, and choline.
A diet deficient in niacin leads to glossitis of the tongue, dermatitis, weight loss, diarrhea, depression and dementia.
Maize meal and wheat flour will be fortified with vitamin A, riboflavin, niacin, pyridoxine, folic acid, iron and zinc.
Pellagra is a nutritional wasting disease attributable to a combined deficiency of tryptophan and niacin.

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