What Is Vitamin B9?
Folic acid is the synthetic version of vitamin B9, which is what is found in fortified foods and supplements.
What Causes It?
Here are some examples:
You don’t eat enough foods that contain folic acid. You might not be eating enough foods like leafy green vegetables, beans, citrus fruits, or whole grains.
You drink a lot of alcohol. You have stomach problems.
Symptoms
Id (vitamin B9) works with vitamin B12 and vitamin C to help the body break down, use, and make new proteins.
It also helps produce DNA, the building block of the human body, which carries genetic information. Folic acid is a water-soluble type of vitamin B. Because folate is not stored in the body in large amounts, your blood levels will get low after only a few weeks of eating a diet low in folate.
Folate is found primarily in legumes, leafy greens, eggs, beets, bananas, citrus fruits, and liver.
What Is Folate Deficiency Anemia?
A lack of folate leads to anemia, a condition in which the body cannot create a sufficient number of red blood cells. Folate deficiency anemia is one of many different types of anemia.
The synthetic form of folate is called folic acid. Folic acid is present in many prenatal vitamins, multivitamins, and B complex vitamins, and it is also available as a separate vitamin supplement.