Vitamin B1 (Thiamine)

Vitamin B1 (thiamine), one of the water-soluble vitamins, is a necessary coenzyme for a variety of life supporting conditions to maintain good health involved in cellular carbohydrate metabolism, as well as in sound mental health. Deficiency of thiamin leads to wholesale degeneration of the body, particularly the nervous and circulatory systems, and eventually death.

Vitamin B1 Sources

There are many natural ways to add thiamine-rich foods to an everyday diet. Food sources of thiamine include beef, liver, dried milk, nuts, oats, oranges, pork, eggs, seeds, legumes, peas and yeast.  Foods are also fortified with thiamine. Some foods that are often fortified with Vitamin B1 are rice, pasta, breads, cereals and flour.

How Much Thiamin Should I Aim For?

The chemical structure of thiamine

Several analytical methods have been frequently used for the determination of Thiamine, e.g. high‐performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), Resonance Rayleigh Scattering (RRS), capillary electrophoresis, electrochemical analysis, spectrophotometry, chemiluminescence, spectrofluorimetry and biosensors. Creative Diagnostics provide a series of thiamine antibodies and conjugates for new thiamine detection method development.

A list of currently available CD Vitamin B1 products can be downloaded here.