Health and Medical

I bet that many of us do not know that pantothenic acid is other name for vitamin B12. This member of B complex family can be found in any kind of food, and most likely, we will not lacking of vitamin B5. The possibility of having vitamin B5 deficiency is very little because almost every natural food that we ate contain some degree of vitamin B5, and our body only need very little amount of it. So, as far as we eat our daily intake normally, we will get enough vitamin B5 for our body.

Even though we might take it for granted that we will not lacking of vitamin B5, do not under estimate its function. Since vitamin B5 no need to be calculated its daily intake, by all mean, it is still important. Vitamin B5 main task is helping our digested food to energy, especially those food made of carbohydrate and fats.

Sourse of vitamin B5 came from both vegetables and animal.   As long as we adopting balance diet, means that we take food from vegetables and animal in balance, the supply of vitamin B5 will be enough. Some foods are contain higher vitamin B5 than other. Those foods that have higher degree of vitamin B5 are salmon, eggs, meat, milk, whole grains, and bean.

For your information that vitamin B5 from grains will be lost in milling process when making the whole grains in to flour.  So, those delicous breads and cereal, or anything made of flour are not included as vitamin B5 good source. Vitamin B5, like other member of vitamin B family, will be ruin when over cooked, or over boiled. So, the best source of vitamin B5 most likely is natural food or lightly cooked or boiled.

In our bodily process, vitamin B5 will fuction effectively when team up with other family members of vitamin B complex. Especially B1 or thiamin, B2 or riboflavin, B3 or niacin, and B6 or pyridoxine, and biotin.  Those vitamin B family are integrated in metabolic action in series of bodily process.  One of important task is energy production, also known as Kerbs cycle; processing food into energy. And vitamin B5 also responsible in releasing energy from fat.

Interesting fact about vitamin B5 is also help us in reducing stress. If we digg deeper, during stress condition, our body produce some hormones for fighting the stress in excessive volume. Some of them, like adrenalin, will need vitamin B5 to release it.

Theories and explanation for explaining the importance of vitamin B5 are many, but we do not have to actively seeking for  food that contain high level of vitamin B5. Normally we take more than enough of vitamin B5 from our daily intake. More over, there’s no bad side effect from to much of vitamin B5.

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