Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine, pyridoxamine, pyridoxal) A0EXS Core term * RPC Derivatives/ ingredients **

The group includes Vitamin B6 used for fortification or enrichment of foods. Vitamin B6 is a water-soluble vitamin and is part of the vitamin B complex group. Several forms of the vitamin are known, but pyridoxal phosphate (PLP) is the active form and is a cofactor in many reactions of amino acid metabolism, including transamination, deamination, and decarboxylation. PLP also is necessary for the enzymatic reaction governing the release of glucose from glycogen

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 *

Descriptors marked are not part of "[F09] Fortification-agent" and open in their own default hierarchy.

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. ↩

Narrower terms

These are child terms of the current term, "Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine, pyridoxamine, pyridoxal)".

Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine, pyridoxamine, pyridoxal) has no narrower terms in [F09] Fortification-agent.

Sibling terms

Other terms sharing the same "Vitamins" parent term.

Record metadata

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8.11
Valid from
16 Mar 2015, 23:19
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Last update
09 Aug 2017, 11:04