Folate Basics
What is another name for folate?
What is Vitamin B9?
In what year was the paper by Lucy Wills that played a huge role in the history of folate discovery published?
What is 1931?
Folate deficiency primarily leads to what type of anemia?
What is megaloblastic anemia?
What leafy green vegetable is particularly high in folate?
What is spinach?
In the US, folic acid fortification of grains began in what decade?
What is the 1990s?
Folate is essential for the production of what crucial biological molecules?
What are DNA and RNA?
What food product did Lucy Wills use to treat tropical macrocytic anemia in India?
What is Marmite?
What type of defects can folate deficiency during pregnancy cause?
What are neural tube defects?
Besides vegetables, name one other type of food that is a good source of folate.
What are nuts?
What percentage reduction in neural tube defects has been observed in areas with folic acid fortification?
What is 30-50%?
Folate plays a key role in what type of metabolism?
What is one-carbon metabolism?
What term was initially used to describe folate before it was fully identified?
What is Wills Factor?
Folate deficiency can lead to elevated levels of what amino acid, increasing the risk of cardiovascular disease?
What is homocysteine?
Folate is often added to which type of food products to help prevent deficiencies?
What are grains?
What is the recommended daily intake of folate for pregnant women?
What is 600 mcg?
Folic acid is the synthetic form of folate. True or False?
What is True?
Which researchers gave folic acid its name after isolating it from spinach?
Who are Mitchell, Snell, and Williams?
Which cells in the body are most affected by folate deficiency?
What are rapidly dividing cells?
True or False: Cooking vegetables reduces their folate content.
What is True?
Which US crisis highlighted the importance of folic acid fortification in preventing birth defects?
What is the Flint, Michigan water crisis?
What is the bioavailability difference between natural folate and synthetic folic acid?
What is natural folate is about 50% absorbed, while folic acid is almost 100% absorbed?
When did researchers Mitchell, Snell, and Williams isolate and name folic acid?
What is 1941?
Name one neurological condition that can be caused by folate deficiency.
What is cognitive impairment?
Which fruit mentioned in the transcript is a good source of folate?
What is papaya?
Folic acid supplementation is most critical during which stage of pregnancy?
What is the early stages, often before a woman knows she is pregnant?