Chapter 3: Vitamins: Water-Soluble and Nutraceuticals

Unit I: Micromolecules in Nutrition I. Contact Hours: 12. Topics: Water-soluble vitamins including B-complex and vitamin C; elementary concepts of chemical names, dietary sources, daily requirements, physiological functions, deficiency symptoms and diseases, and excess intake effects; current applications of nutrition in health sciences including antioxidants, phytochemicals, nutraceuticals, prebiotics, probiotics and functional foods.