The folic acid is also known as vitamin b9 in general use. Along with folic acid folate, pteroyl-L-glutamic acid and pteroyl-L-glutamate are water soluble forms of vitamin b9. One will find that the folic acid does not able to play its own biological part as the prescence of tetrahydrofolate and many other derivatives in the liver led its conversion into dihydrofolic acid. The folic acid is important for various bodyfunctions like nucleotide biosynthesis to remethylation of homocysteine. The folic acid plays an important role at times of rapid celldivisions and growth in the body. One should not take folic acid casually as it helps in producing healthy red blood cells in the body avoiding the prescence of anemia in both children and elders. It is important to know along iwth its benefits that the folic acid and folate have accepted their names from the latin word folium meaning leaf.
Now one will think what to eat that they can compensate the requirement of folic acid and folate. So for this one should have the intake of leafy vegetables like spinach, asparagus, turnip greens, lettuces, dried or fresh beans and peas, fortified cereal products, sunflower seeds and many fruits and vegetables have rich prescence of folate in them. Not only this liver and products of liver containing high amount of folate along iwthbaker's yeast. Certain breakfast cereals do have near about 100 percent of folic acid as followed by recommended dietary allowance (RDA). In many countries folic acid is added in grain products. Users of folic acid should know that the biological functions of folic acid is done by tetrahydrofolate and many other derivatives. And the folic acid biological availability in the body depends on the action of dihydrofolate reductase present in the liver.
Folic acid is important in women especially going throuhg pregnancy protecting from anemia.
Even in certain cases folic acid act as a supplement for anit-cancer drug in medical history. The other form of folic acid called folate helps in emergence and maintenance of new cells in the body. So one should read health magazines and visit on many websites for knowing more about folic acid.
