About Vitamin B1 (Thiamine)

    Function
  • Essential metabolic role in carbohydrate metabolism, heart, neural function.


  • Thiamine pytophosphate(active from) serves as a coenzyme in the oxidative decarboxylation of pyruvatue to acetyl CoA and α-ketpglutarate to succinyl CoA.
  • Key role in energy metabolism of most cells, but particularly important in tissues of the nervous system

  • Recommended Dietary Allowance(Female in 20's, healty, non-pregnant)
    1.1mg

 

Selected foods on the list are high or realtively high in vitamin B1.

Barley

Black beans

Bulgur

Cashew nuts

Cowpeas (Black eyes)

Duck

Edamame

Flounder

Green peas

Lentil

Salmon

Lima beans

Navy beans

Nori

Oat bran

Orange juice

Pinto beans

Pistachio nuts

Pork

Seaweed

 

 

 

Sesame seeds

Soba noodles

Soybeans

Soymilk

Tomato products

Tuna

Unagi eel

 

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