A vitamin is an organic molecule (or a set of molecules alongside united chemically, i.e. vitamers) that is an valuable micronutrient which an organism needs in small quantities for the proper in force of its metabolism. necessary nutrients cannot be synthesized in the organism, either at all or not in plenty quantities, and correspondingly 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 swell the three other groups of valuable nutrients: minerals, vital fatty acids, and critical amino acids. Most vitamins are not single molecules, but groups of amalgamated 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 as a...