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Vitamin B1


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Vitamin B1 is found in brown rice, lentils and peas among other things. A lack of vitamin B1 causes the deficiency disease beriberi.
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This production is based on the 1929 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, awarded for pointing out a substance in rice skin, which was later discovered to be vitamin B1.
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Christian Eijkman, Beriberi and Vitamin B1 »

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MLA style: "Vitamin B1". Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB 2013. Web. 20 Jun 2013. <http://www.nobelprize.org/educational/medicine/vitamin_b1/index.html>

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