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Tiny molecules your body can't make but absolutely refuses to live without.
means Any of various organic compounds your body needs in small amounts for normal function but mostly can't synthesize, so you have to get them from food.
from Coined in 1912 by Polish-born biochemist Casimir Funk as 'vitamine' — from Latin 'vita' (life) plus 'amine,' because he believed these life-giving substances were all amines (nitrogen-containing compounds). When it turned out many of them aren't amines at all, the embarrassing 'e' was quietly dropped, leaving 'vitamin' — a word that's literally half-wrong but too useful to fix.
alphabet gapsVitamins skip from E to K — debunked ones got deleted
original spellingCoined vitamine, the e dropped when not all were amines
sun-madeVitamin D is a hormone your skin builds from sunlight
deadly overdosePolar explorers died eating too much vitamin-A-rich liver
scurvy cureVitamin C deficiency rotted gums and reopened old wounds