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Vitamins

Vegetables represent the special value as alimentary and medicinal products in connection with the high maintenance to them of vitamins. As vitamins are called low-molecular organic matters, various on a chemical constitution. Remarkable feature of these materials is that their quantity necessary for an organism, is insignificant a little, but presence of these remains necessarily. Such simple name of these materials – vitamins – actually masks the terrible fact bound to them: absence of vitamins in nutrition invokes heavy diseases, for example a scurvy, takes-take, a rickets, pellagra and other which come to an end with mors of the patient. From here "vitamin" that В«life amineВ» (amines – the phylum of organic matters) means.

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