A vitamin is an organic molecule (or a set of molecules contiguously united chemically, i.e. vitamers) that is an vital micronutrient which an organism needs in small quantities for the proper energetic of its metabolism. valuable nutrients cannot be synthesized in the organism, either at all or not in plenty quantities, and consequently must be obtained through the diet. Vitamin C can be synthesized by some species but not by others; it is not a vitamin in the first instance but is in the second. The term vitamin does not complement the three additional groups of vital nutrients: minerals, essential fatty acids, and valuable amino acids. Most vitamins are not single molecules, but groups of united molecules called vitamers. For example, there are eight vitamers of vitamin E: four tocopherols and four tocotrienols. Some sources list fourteen vitamins, by including choline, but major health organizations list thirteen: vitamin A (as all-trans-retinol, all-trans-retinyl-esters, as capabl...