Cabbage folic acid

Folic acid is a member of the vitamin B complex found in green plants, fresh fruit, yeast, and liver. Folic acid takes its name from folium, Latin for leaf. Pterin compounds are named from the Greek word for wing because these substances were first identified in insect wings. Two pterins are familiar to any child who has seen (and chased) the common yellow sulfur butterfly and its white counterpart, the cabbage butterfly. Xanthopterin and leu-... 

Much of the folacin in food is present as conjugated pteroyl polyglutamates. Soybean contains 40% monoglutamate analogues, but in cabbage 90% of folic acid is present in forms... 

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