A vitamin is an organic molecule (or a set of molecules next door to similar chemically, i.e. vitamers) that is an indispensable micronutrient which an organism needs in little quantities for the proper involved of its metabolism. vital nutrients cannot be synthesized in the organism, either at all or not in enough quantities, and for that reason 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 augment the three further groups of vital nutrients: minerals, essential fatty acids, and vital amino acids. Most vitamins are not single molecules, but groups of aligned 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 well ...