Nutrition 101: Vitamin B1

I love sharing nutrition info with you guys.  I know that, for me at least, I have a greater appreciation for me food when I know what exactly I’m getting out of it.  However, even I was getting kind of bored of reading (writing) big long posts on nutrition, so I figured out a way to make nutrition a bit more reader-friendly by using fun graphics!

Today, I’m continuing my Nutrition 101 series by teaching you a bit about vitamin B1, also called thiamine.  I was originally going to go over all the B-vitamins at once, but decided that I’d rather break it down for you a bit more.

Thiamine is a water-soluble vitamin, which means that it is not stored in the body.  This means that you should be consuming or supplementing thiamine on a daily basis, or you may be at risk for deficiency.

I also want to mention that I do not recommend supplementing individual B-vitamins.  Most of the B-vitamins are reliant on each other during certain metabolic processes, so supplementing only one of them can lead to deficiency in the others.

Now get out there and make a spinach salad with some raw sunflower seeds on top with a side of beans!

TGIF!

<3 Lindsay