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Question

Apart from water soluble and fat soluble, can someone give me another characteristic of vitamins?

Answer 1

You have got some answers but they are not targeted to answer you have asked.
Most vitamins act as cofactors of enzymes.

Answer 2

Each vitamin is typically used in multiple reactions and, therefore most have multiple functions.

Vitamins are essential for the normal growth and development of a multicellular organism. Using the genetic blueprint inherited from its parents, a fetus begins to develop, at the moment of conception, from the nutrients it absorbs. It requires certain vitamins and minerals to be present at certain times. These nutrients facilitate the chemical reactions that produce among other things, skin, bone, and muscle. If there is serious deficiency in one or more of these nutrients, a child may develop a deficiency disease. Even minor deficiencies may cause permanent damage.

For the most part, vitamins are obtained with food, but a few are obtained by other means. For example, microorganisms in the intestine - commonly known as "gut flora" - produce vitamin K and biotin, while one form of vitamin D is synthesized in the skin with the help of natural ultraviolet in sunlight. Humans can produce some vitamins from precursors they consume. Examples include vitamin A, produced from beta carotene, and niacin, from the amino acid tryptophan.

Once growth and development are completed, vitamins remain essential nutrients for the healthy maintenance of the cells, tissues, and organs that make up a multicellular organism; they also enable a multicellular life form to efficiently use chemical energy provided by food it eats, and to help process the proteins, carbohydrates, and fats required for respiration.

Answer 3

fresh fruit vegetables cress is a good source of v's and minerals they they are essential to our body to help maintain our system as in nervous digestive all of it without one vitamin our immune system ails another affects skin etc
they come in drops as well

Answer 4

Most of them are chemically enhanced, concentrated or quick to leave your system.
I don't trust any of them to even be of therapeautic value.
Give me fresh meat, vegetables and fruit anytime.
If you eat right, you don't need any of that crap to begin with.

Answer 5

needed for various cellular processes, at the molecular level, such as in respiratory pathways.