ABSTRACT
It is legend that the term vitamine was coined in the early 1900s when a biochemist named Casimir Funk described a vital amine (nitrogen)-containing component of food. Subse quently newly discovered food-derived substances purported to be vital to human opera tion were also called vitamines. However as scientists observed that many of these substances did not contain nitrogen, the "e" was dropped from "vitamine," converting it to the more familiar term vitamin.
