Vitamin B9 (folic acid, folinic acid) A0EXQ Core term * RPC Derivatives/ ingredients **

The group includes Vitamin B9 used for fortification or enrichment of foods. Folic acid (also known as vitamin M, vitamin B9, vitamin Bc or folacin, pteroyl-L-glutamic acid, and pteroyl-L-glutamate) is a form of the water-soluble vitamin B9. Folate is a naturally occurring form of the vitamin, found in food, while folic acid is synthetically produced, and used in fortified foods and supplements

Core term (Level of detail)

A standard food term, suitable as a base term in a FoodEx2 code. ↩

RPC Derivatives/ ingredients (Type of Term)

A food made from a single commodity by a process that changes its nature, such as flour from grain or oil from seeds. ↩

Implicit facet descriptors *

Facet descriptor

Implicit facet descriptors are characteristics a food already implies, so they are left out of its FoodEx2 code. For example, "smoked salmon" (A02KF) implies the facet descriptor "smoking" (F28.A07JV); because the term itself already conveys it, it is not added to the code. ↩

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Sibling terms

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Record metadata

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Valid from
16 Mar 2015, 23:19
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Last update
09 Aug 2017, 11:04